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Welcome to the Space Calendar!
The Space Calendar covers space-related
activities and anniversaries for the coming year. Included are over 1,600 links to related home pages.
This Calendar is compiled and maintained by Ron Baalke.
Please send any updates or corrections to
baalke@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov.
Note that launch dates are subject to change at any time.
Also, anniversary dates are listed in
5 year increments only.
April 2009
- Apr 14 - Beidou 2-2 (Compass M-2) CZ-3A Launch, Successful
- Apr 14 - Asteroid 13926 Berners-Lee Closest Approach To Earth (2.303 AU)
- Apr 14 - Christiaan Huygens' 380th Birthday (1629)
- Apr 15 - Comet 209P/LINEAR
Perihelion (0.914 AU)
- Apr 15 - Comet C/2009 F5 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.914 AU)
- Apr 15 - Asteroid 13070 Seanconnery Closest Approach To Earth (1.834 AU)
- Apr 16 - Comet C/2009 G1 (STEREO)
Perihelion (1.129 AU)
- Apr 16 - Asteroid 2009 HB21
Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
- Apr 16 - Asteroid 2009 FT32
Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
- Apr 16 - Asteroid 2007 HR Near-Mercury Flyby (0.044 AU)
- Apr 16 - Lecture: Rainbows, Red Sunsets and Rocket Science Revisited, Pasadena, California
- Apr 16 - Lecture: Gemini Northern Telescope, Waimea, Hawaii
- Apr 17 - Asteroid 4147 Lennon Closest Approach To Earth (1.197 AU)
- Apr 17 - 52nd Annual Goddard Memorial Dinner, Washington DC
- Apr 17 - Workshop on Exploring and Using Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer Data, Seattle, Washington
- Apr 17 - Lecture: Rainbows, Red Sunsets and Rocket Science Revisited, Pasadena, California
- Apr 18 - Asteroid 4266 Waltari Occults HIP 23015 (2.7 Magnitude Star)
- Apr 18 - Sally Ride Science Festival, Fairfax, Virginia
- Apr 19 - Asteroid 2009 HT2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.051 AU)
- Apr 19 - Asteroid 2009 HU44
Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
- Apr 19-23 - Joint European National Astronomy Meeting (JENAM 2009), Hatfield, United Kingdom
- Apr 19-24 - European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria
- Apr 20 - Cassini,
Titan Flyby
- Apr 20 - RISAT/
Anusat
PSLV Launch (India), Successful
- Apr 20 - Sicral 1-B
Zenit 3SL Launch, Successful
- Apr 20-23 - Conference: Microanalysis of Particles (Particles 2009), Westmont, Illinois
- Apr 20-23 - International Conference: The Sun, the Stars, the Universe and General Relativity, Minsk, Belarus
- Apr 21 - Comet C/2008 O2 (McNaught)
Perihelion (3.804 AU)
- Apr 21 - Asteroid 14 Irene At Opposition (8.9 Magnitude)
- Apr 21 - Asteroid 2009 HF21
Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
- Apr 21-23 - European Week of Astrononmy and Space Science, Hatfield, United Kingdom
- Apr 21-23 - Meeting: Missions for Exoplanets - 2010-2020, Pasadena, California
- Apr 22 - Earth Day
- Apr 22 - Yaogan 6 (Weixing 6) CZ-2C Launch (China), Successful
- Apr 22 - Moon Occults Venus
- Apr 22 - Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak
- Apr 22 - Asteroid 8 Flora
At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude)
- Apr 22 - Lecture: Planetary Protection and Hitchhikers in the Solar System - The Danger of Mingling Microbes, Los Altos Hills, California
- Apr 22-25 - Mid-South Star Gaze, French Camp, Mississippi
- Apr 23 - Comet 214P/LINEAR
Closest Approach To Earth (1.150 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 2009 HJ21
Near-Earth Flyby (0.003 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 2009 FJ30
Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 2006 DM63 Near-Venus Flyby (0.042 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 3895 Earhart Closest Approach To Earth (1.253 AU)
- Apr 23-26 - Georgia Sky View 2009, near Jackson, Georgia
- Apr 23-26 - Two Rivers Spring Star Party, Barry, Illionis
- Apr 24 - Comet C/2008 Q1 (Maticic)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.469 AU)
- Apr 24 - Asteroid 2009 HW67
Near-Earth Flyby (0.003 AU)
- Apr 24 - Asteroid 2009 HG60
Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
- Apr 24 - Asteroid 2009 HD
Near-Earth Flyby (0.075 AU)
- Apr 24 - Alpine Star Party, Alpine, Texas
- Apr 24-26 - Jules Verne Festival, Paris, France
- Apr 24-26 - Stokes Star Party, Highlands, New Jersey
- Apr 24-26 - Southern Star 2009, Little Switzerland, North Carolina
- Apr 24-26 - 5th Annual Tennessee Spring Star Party 2009, Pikeville, Tennessee
- Apr 25 - Kepler Workshop: A Search for Habitable Planets, Washington DC
- Apr 25 - Sally Ride Science Festival, Dallas, Texas
- Apr 25-30 - 14th Brazilian Remote Sensing Symposium (SBSR), Natal, Brazil
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 4798-01581-1 (13.1 Magnitude Star)
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 2009 HS44
Near-Earth Flyby (0.012 AU)
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 2009 HH21
Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 2009 HT58
Near-Earth Flyby (0.058 AU)
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 2009 FP28
Near-Earth Flyby (0.100 AU)
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 17078 Sellers Closest Approach To Earth (2.272 AU)
- Apr 26-30 - Workshop: Hotwiring the Transient Universe II - Real-Time Astronomy, Santa Cruz, California
- Apr 27 - Asteroid 5138 Gyoda Occults HIP 72194 (6.4 Magnitude Star)
- Apr 27 - Asteroid 2009 HK73
Near-Earth Flyby (0.003 AU)
- Apr 27 - Asteroid 2009 JR
Near-Earth Flyby (0.047 AU)
- Apr 27-30 - 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids, Granada, Spain
- Apr 27-30 - Workshop: The Coming of Age of X-ray Polarimetry, Rome, Italy
- Apr 27-30 - Responsive Space Conference 2009, Los Angeles, California
- Apr 27-May 01 - IAU Symposium 261: Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy - Dynamics, Reference Frames, and Data Analysis, Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Apr 27-May 02 - 16th Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Apr 28 - Cassini,
Orbital Trim Maneuver #192 (OTM-192), Successful
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 4799-01996-1 (12.2 Magnitude Star)
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 646 Kastalia Occults HIP 64577 (5.3 Magnitude Star)
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 2009 HJ36
Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 2007 WA Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 8256 Shenzhou Closest Approach To Earth (1.664 AU)
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 17640 Mount Stromlo Closest Approach To Earth (2.221 AU)
- Apr 28-30 - International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC 2009), Rome, Italy
- Apr 29 - Cosmos 2450 Soyuz Launch (Russia), Successful
- Apr 29 -[May 12] Asteroid 2009 JM1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.041 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 2007 EB26 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.020 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 719 Albert
Closest Approach To Earth (2.031 AU)
- Apr 29-May 01 - NASA Centennial Challenges 2009: Power Beaming and Tether Challenges
- Apr 29-May 01 - 1th NASA-ESA Workshop on Product Data Exchange, Kent, Washington
- Apr 29-May 03 - Astronomy Week
- Apr 30 - Comet P/2009 F7 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.806 AU)
- Apr 30 - Asteroid 2009 JS
Near-Earth Flyby (0.008 AU)
- Apr 30 - Asteroid 2009 HE21
Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)
- Apr 30-May 01 - Palomar Science Meeting, Pasadena, California
- Apr 30-May 02 - Crossroads: The Future of Human Life in the Universe Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts
May 2009
- May ?? - Oceansat 2 PSLV Launch
- May 01 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Genesis, Earth Flyby
- May 01 - 60th Anniversary (1949), Gerard Kuiper's Discovery of
Neptune Moon Nereid
- May 01-07 - 8th Annual International Astrophysics Conference: Shock Waves in Space and Astrophysical Environments, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
- May 02 - Astronomy Day
- May 02 - Comet 88P/Howell
Closest Approach To Earth (1.230 AU)
- May 02 - Asteroid 2009 HG21
Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU)
- May 02 - Asteroid 9500 Camelot Closest Approach To Earth (1.839 AU)
- May 02 - Asteroid 5231 Verne Closest Approach To Earth (2.031 AU)
- May 02 - U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 2009, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Florida
- May 02 - Space Day: Family Day, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC
- May 02 - Explorers Club Space Stories 2009 Event, New York, New York
- May 02-03 - Jet Propulsion Laboratory Open House, Pasadena, California
- May 02-05 - American Astronomical Society Division on Dynamical Astronomy Meeting, Virginia Beach, Virginia
- May 02-10 - School on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Oran, Algeria
- May 03 - Asteroid 9007 James Bond Closest Approach To Earth (1.823 AU)
- May 04 - Asteroid 2009 JA
Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
- May 04 - Asteroid 2009 HM82
Near-Earth Flyby (0.070 AU)
- May 04 - Asteroid 4342 Freud Closest Approach To Earth (1.771 AU)
- May 04 - Asteroid 3297 Hong Kong Closest Approach To Earth (2.671 AU)
- May 04 - 20th Anniversary (1989), Magellan Launch (Venus Orbiter)
- May 04-07 - 20th AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference/
18th AIAA Lighter-Than-Air Systems Technology Conference/
AIAA Balloon Systems Conference, Seattle, Washington
- May 04-08 - 2009 IEEE Radar Conference, Pasadena, California
- May 04-08 - 53rd Meeting of the Italian Astronomical Society (SAIt2009), Pisa, Italy
- May 04-09 - Symposium: The Search for Life in the Universe, Baltimore, Maryland
- May 05 - Cassini,
Titan Flyby, Successful
- May 05 -[May 07] Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demo
Delta 2 Launch, Successful
- May 05 - Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- May 05 -[May 07] Asteroid 2009 JF1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU)
- May 05 - Lecture: Transneptunian Binaries and Collision Families - Probes of our Local Dust Disk, Baltmore, Maryland
- May 05 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Galileo, Callisto 20 Flyby
- May 05-06 - European Ground System Architecture Workshop (ESAW), Darmstadt, Germany
- May 07 - Space Day
- May 07 -[May 08] Progress M-02M
Soyuz U Launch, Successful
(International Space Station 33P)
- May 07 - Comet C/2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN)
Perihelion (1.275 AU)
- May 07 - Comet 211P/Hill
Perihelion (2.362 AU)
- May 07 - Asteroid 25924 Douglasadams Closest Approach To Earth (1.077 AU)
- May 07 - Asteroid 3673 Levy Closest Approach To Earth (1.764 AU)
- May 07 - Asteroid 697 Galilea Closest Approach To Earth (2.105 AU)
- May 08 -[May 09] TacSat 3/
Genesat 2/PharmaSat 1/HawkSat 1/CP-6
Minotaur 1 Launch
- May 08 - Asteroid 6 Hebe
At Opposition (9.9 Magnitude)
- May 08 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 0149-01152-1 (11.7 Magnitude Star)
- May 08 -[May 07] Asteroid 2009 JE1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
- May 09 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults UCAC2 32172562 (12.0 Magnitude Star)
- May 09 - Asteroid 2009 CR4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)
- May 09-16 - Conference: Black Holes VII - Theory and Mathematical Aspects, Banff, Canada
- May 10 - Asteroid 2009 HG
Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
- May 10 - Asteroid 1024 Hale Closest Approach To Earth (2.315 AU)
- May 10-15 - Conference: Bolides and Meteorite Falls, Prague, Czech Republic
- May 11 -[May 12] STS-125 Launch, Space Shuttle Atlantis,
Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission #4, Successful
- May 11-14 - First International Symposium on Reliability of Optoelectronics For Space (ISROS 2009), Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
- May 11-15 - International Conference on Comparative Planetology: Venus - Earth - Mars, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- May 11-15 - 3rd ARENA Conference: An Astronomical Observatory at Dome C (Antarctica) for the Next Decade, Rome, Italy
- May 11-15 - Workshop: The Giant Branches, Leiden, The Netherlands
- May 11-15 - 2nd Magnetism in Massive Stars (MiMeS 2) Meeting, Paris, France
- May 12-15 - Conference: Galaxies in Isolation - Exploring Nature versus Nurture, Granada, Spain
- May 12-15 - Conference: Open Problems In Galaxy Formation, Potsdam, Germany
- May 13 - Comet 137P/Shoemaker-Levy 2
Perihelion (1.915 AU)
- May 13 - Asteroid 1761 Edmondson Occults HIP 89153 (5.0 Magnitude Star)
- May 13-15 - 2nd Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics (RICAP09), Rome, Italy
- May 14 -[May 14] Herschel/
Planck
Ariane 5 Launch
- May 14 -[May 13] Protostar 2 (Indostar 2) Proton M-Briz M Launch
- May 14 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #195 (OTM-195)
- May 14 - Asteroid 2228 Soyuz-Apollo Closest Approach To Earth (2.683 AU)
- May 14 - Lecture: Kepler, a Planet-Hunting Mission, Pasadena, California
- May 14 - Lecture: UH Institute for Astronomy, Waimea, Hawaii
- May 15 - Meteor-M-N1/
Sterkh 2 (Cospas 12)/IRIS/Ugatusat/Sumbandila/
Tatyana 2 Soyuz 2-1b-Fregat Launch
- May 15 - Meridian 2 Soyuz 2-1a-Fregat Launch
- May 15 - Asteroid 1996 Adams Closest Approach To Earth (1.747 AU)
- May 15 - Lecture: Kepler, a Planet-Hunting Mission, Pasadena, California
- May 15-17 - 2009 Bootleg Astronomy Star Party, Harmon, Illinois
- May 16 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Venera 5, Venus Impact
- May 17 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Venera 6, Venus Impact
- May 17-20 - 12th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Boulder, Colorado
- May 18 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #196 (OTM-196)
- May 18 - Comet 215P/NEAT
Closest Approach To Earth (2.580 AU)
- May 18 - Asteroid 2001 SG286
Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)
- May 18 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 10 Launch
- May 18-20 - International Symposium Marco Polo and Other Small Body Sample Return Missions, Paris, France
- May 18-20 - 5th ESA Workshop on Millimetre Wave Technologies and Applications and 31st ESA Antenna Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- May 18-20 - 2nd Astronomy & Astrophysics School: Scientific Writing for Young Astronomers, Blankenberge, Belgium
- May 18-21 - Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories, Malaga,
Spain
- May 18-21 - Joint Subaru/Gemini Science Conference, Kyoto, Japan
- May 18-22 - 3rd International Workshop on the Interconnection Between Particle Physics and Cosmology (PPC2009), Norman, Oklahoma
- May 18-22 - Constellation School on X-rays from Star Forming Regions, Palermo, Italy
- May 19 -[May 14] Asteroid 2009 JG2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU)
- May 19 - Asteroid 118401 LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (2.662 AU)
- May 19 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Hayabusa (MUSES-C), Earth Flyby
- May 19-21 - Conference: Multi-Messenger Relativistic Astrophysics 2009, Atlanta, Georgia
- May 19-21 - Workshop on Tests of Gravity and Gravitational Physics, Cleveland, Ohio
- May 20 - Lecture: The Dark Side of the Universe - Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Los Altos Hills, California
- May 20-23 - International Workshop: Open Questions on the Origins of Life, San Sebastian, Spain.
- May 21 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- May 21 - Asteroid 203 Pompeja Closest Approach To Earth (1.890 AU)
- May 21 - Asteroid 10217 Richardcook Closest Approach To Earth (1.898 AU)
- May 21 - Asteroid 4808 Ballaero Closest Approach To Earth (2.069 AU)
- May 21 - Asteroid 51828 Ilanramon Closest Approach To Earth (2.089 AU)
- May 22 -[May 12] Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns To Earth (STS-125)
- May 22 - Asteroid 433 Eros Occults TYC 5814-00007-1 (11.0 Magnitude Star)
- May 22 - Asteroid 83360 Catalina Closest Approach To Earth (1.826 AU)
- May 22 - Gemini Users Meeting, Kyoto, Japan
- May 22-24 - Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
- May 22-25 - NIAGfest/GREATCON, Beaver City, Indiana
- May 23 - Asteroid 207945 (1991 JW)
Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
- May 24 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #197 (OTM-197)
- May 24 - Asteroid 10044 Squyres Closest Approach To Earth (1.778 AU)
- May 24 - Asteroid 1282 Utopia Closest Approach To Earth (2.543 AU)
- May 24-27 - The Meeting of the Americas - 2009 Joint Assembly, Toronta, Canada
- May 24-29 - Meeting: Tidal Dwarf Galaxies - Ghosts from Structure Formation, Bad Honnef, Germany
- May 24-29 -[May 14] 30th Annual International Gravitational Physiology Meeting, Xi'an, China
- May 24-29 - School of Astrophysics "Francesco Lucchin": Cosmological Backgrounds & Statistical Methods for Astrophysics, Bertinoro, Italy
- May 25 -[May 13] Comet 22P/Kopff
Perihelion (1.578 AU)
- May 25 - Asteroid 2009 HD82
Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
- May 25 - Asteroid 149 Medusa Closest Approach To Earth (1.301 AU)
- May 25 - Asteroid 253 Mathilde
Closest Approach To Earth (1.603 AU)
- May 25 - Asteroid 3352 McAuliffe Closest Approach To Earth (2.000 AU)
- May 25-29 - Planck 2009 Conference: From The Planck Scale To The Electroweak Scale, Padova, Italy
- May 25-29 - Conference: Tidal Dwarf Galaxies - Ghosts from Structure Formation, Bad Honnef, Germany
- May 26 - Asteroid 5145 Pholus Closest Approach To Earth (21.717 AU)
- May 26-28 - Conference: The EVLA Vision - Stars On and Off the Main Sequence, Socorro, New Mexico
- May 26-29 - Annual Meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA 2009), Toronto, Canada
- May 26-29 - Sobral Meeting: The Sun, the Stars, the Universe and General Relativity, Ceara, Brazil
- May 27 - Soyuz TMA-15 Soyuz FG Launch
(International Space Station 19S)
- May 27 - Asteroid 1540 Kevola Occults HIP 110746 (6.3 Magnitude Star)
- May 27-28 - Symposium: Fifty Years of Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- May 27-28 - ESA/EDA Workshop on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Satellite Services, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- May 28 - 50th Anniversary (1959), Jupiter C Launch Of Two Monkeys (Able & Baker)
- May 28-31 - International Space Development Conference (ISDC), Orlando, Florida
- May 29 - Asteroid 433 Eros Occults TYC 5812-01209-1 (11.3 Magnitude Star)
- May 29 - Asteroid 6032 Nobel Closest Approach To Earth (1.169 AU)
- May 29 - Asteroid 4337 Arecibo Closest Approach To Earth (1.994 AU)
- May 29 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Luna 22 Launch (Soviet Moon Orbiter)
- May 29 - 90th Anniversary (1919), Solar Eclipse Confirms Einstein's General Theory Of Relativity
- May 29-31 - 2nd Annual Michiana Star Party, Tippecanoe, Indiana
- May 30 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #198 (OTM-198)
- May 30 - Asteroid 2006 KY67 Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
- May 30 - Asteroid 5738 Billpickering Closest Approach To Earth (2.220 AU)
- May 30 - Sally Ride Science Festival, Towson, Maryland
- May 31 - Comet C/2009 G1 (STEREO)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.047 AU)
- May 31 - Asteroid 2753 Duncan Closest Approach To Earth (1.870 AU)
- May 31-Jun 05 - Conference: Stellar Pulsation - Challenges for Theory and Observation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
June 2009
- Jun ?? - NSS-12 Ariane 5ECA Launch
- Jun ?? - COMS 1 Ariane 5 Launch
- Jun ?? - Measat 3A Zenit 3SLB Launch
- Jun ?? - SBSS-1 Minotaur 4 Launch
- Jun ?? - RazakSAT/Cubesats
Falcon 1 Launch
- Jun 01 - Asteroid 7086 Bopp Closest Approach To Earth (1.088 AU)
- Jun 01 - Asteroid 916 America Closest Approach To Earth (1.632 AU)
- Jun 01 - Asteroid 2801 Huygens Closest Approach To Earth (1.824 AU)
- Jun 01 - Asteroid 1941 Wild Closest Approach To Earth (3.262 AU)
- Jun 01-02 - Workshop on Modeling Martian Hydrous Environments, Houston, Texas
- Jun 01-02 - Conference: Physics of Relativistic Flows - An Observational View, Stockholm, Sweden
- Jun 01-03 - European Advanced Life Support Workshop, Barcelona, Spain
- Jun 01-04 - 4th International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology, Santa Clara, Cuba
- Jun 01-05 - 2nd Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, Chania, Greece
- Jun 01-05 - Meeting: The Monster's Fiery Breath - Feedback in Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters, Madison, Wisconsin
- Jun 01-05 - 5th International Workshop on the Dark Side of the Universe (DSU09), Melbourne, Australia
- Jun 01-06 - Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers V, State College, Pennsylvania
- Jun 02 -[May 09] Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)/
Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)
Atlas 5 Launch
- Jun 02 - Comet C/2008 Q3 (Garradd)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.935 AU)
- Jun 02 -[May 12] Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 0188-00749-1 (11.0 Magnitude Star)
- Jun 02 - Asteroid 2002 LT38
Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU)
- Jun 02 - Asteroid 3066 McFadden Closest Approach To Earth (1.672 AU)
- Jun 02 - Asteroid 1578 Kirkwood Closest Approach To Earth (3.836 AU)
- Jun 02-05 - Conference: Panoramic Radio Astronomy - Wide-field 1-2 GHz Research on Galaxy Evolution, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Jun 03 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #199 (OTM-199)
- Jun 03-04 - ESA Telecom and Integrated Applications Information Days 2009, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Jun 03-05 - Workshop on the Surface Composition of Mercury from Ultraviolet-Visible-Infrared Spectroscopy: State of the Art and Future Strategies, Parma, Italy
- Jun 03-12 - 52nd Session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Vienna, Austria
- Jun 04 - Comet C/2007 M1 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (6.935 AU)
- Jun 04 - Asteroid 6434 Jewitt Closest Approach To Earth (1.320 AU)
- Jun 04 - Asteroid 11911 Angel Closest Approach To Earth (2.517 AU)
- Jun 04 - Steven J. Ostro Memorial Symposium, Pasadena, California
- Jun 05 - Venus At Its Greatest Western
Elongation (46 Degrees)
- Jun 05 -[May 10] Asteroid 1846 Bengt Occults HIP 78699 (6.2 Magnitude Star)
- Jun 05 - Asteroid 341 California Closest Approach To Earth (1.009 AU)
- Jun 05 - Asteroid 79896 Billhaley Closest Approach To Earth (1.749 AU)
- Jun 05 - John Couch Adams' 190th Birthday (1819)
- Jun 06 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Jun 06 - Asteroid 2004 FY15 Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
- Jun 06 -[May 12] StarConn 2009, Middletown, Connecticut
- Jun 07 - Asteroid 2247 Hiroshima Closest Approach To Earth (1.647 AU)
- Jun 07 - Asteroid 12485 Jenniferharris Closest Approach To Earth (1.655 AU)
- Jun 07-11 - 214th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Pasadena, California
- Jun 07-11 - 17th IAA Human in Space Symposium, Moscow, Russia
- Jun 07-11 - 19th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, Bad Reichenhall, Germany
- Jun 07-11 - Conference: Anions - From the Lab to the Stars, Bad Honnef, Germany
- Jun 08 -[May 12] Asteroid 3 Juno Occults UCAC2 32472723 (11.5 Magnitude Star)
- Jun 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 28978 Ixion
Closest Approach To Earth (40.576 AU)
- Jun 08-12 - Conference: Binaries - Key to Comprehension of the Universe, Brno, Czech Republic
- Jun 08-12 - Conference: Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy at High Angular Resolution, Taipei, Taiwan
- Jun 08-18 - Nordic-Baltic Optical/NIR and Radio Astronomy Summer School: Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies, Turku, Finland
- Jun 09 -[May 11] Asteroid 393 Lampetia Occults HIP 83738 (6.4 Magnitude Star)
- Jun 09 -[May 13] Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 0202-00295-1 (10.7 Magnitude Star)
- Jun 09 - Asteroid 143651 (2003 QO104) Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
- Jun 09 - Asteroid 7359 Messier Closest Approach To Earth (2.485 AU)
- Jun 09 - Asteroid 2041 Lancelot Closest Approach To Earth (2.675 AU)
- Jun 09-11 - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Science Targeting Meeting, Tempe, Arizona
- Jun 10 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #200 (OTM-200)
- Jun 10 -[May 10] Comet 220P/McNaught
Closest Approach To Earth (1.365 AU)
- Jun 10 - Asteroid 136617 (1994 CC) Near-Earth Flyby (0.017 AU)
- Jun 10 - Asteroid 2004 SX Near-Mars Flyby (0.042 AU)
- Jun 10 - Asteroid 2266 Tchaikovsky Closest Approach To Earth (3.012 AU)
- Jun 11 - Asteroid 2001 WT1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.049 AU)
- Jun 11 - Kuiper Belt Object 50000 Quaoar
Closest Approach To Earth (42.193 AU)
- Jun 11 - Lecture: The Really Big Picture - Things We Know About the Universe, and How We Know Them, Pasadena, California
- Jun 11 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Cassini,
Phoebe Flyby
- Jun 12 - Asteroid 2002 LR24 Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
- Jun 12 - Asteroid 2003 HT42 Near-Venus Flyby (0.036 AU)
- Jun 12 - Lecture: The Really Big Picture - Things We Know About the Universe, and How We Know Them, Pasadena, California
- Jun 13 - STS-127 Launch, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Japanese Experiment Logistics Module - Exposed Section (ELM-ES) (International Space Station 2J/A)
- Jun 13 - Comet C/2008 T2 (Cardinal)
Perihelion (1.202 AU)
- Jun 13 - Asteroid 74625 Tieproject Closest Approach To Earth (1.644 AU)
- Jun 13 - Jet Propulsion Lab's 65th Birthday (1944)
- Jun 13-20 - 2009 Grand Canyon Star Party (GCSP), Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
- Jun 14 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #201 (OTM-201)
- Jun 14 - Comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels
Perihelion (1.377 AU)
- Jun 14 - Asteroid 137078 (1998 XZ4) Near-Venus Flyby (0.039 AU)
- Jun 14-20 - 14th International Clay Conference, Castellaneta Marina, Italy
- Jun 15 -[May 09] Asteroid 1300 Marcelle Occults HIP 68050 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
- Jun 15 -[May 13] Asteroid 3 Juno Occults TYC 0585-00378-1 (10.6 Magnitude Star)
- Jun 15-17 - Atmospheric Composition Constellation (ACC) Workshop on Air Quality, Frascati, Italy
- Jun 15-18 - Workshop: Searching for the Origins of Cosmic Rays, Trondheim, Norway
- Jun 15-28 - International Workshop: Pulsars in their Diversity, Marciana Marina, Elba island, Italy
- Jun 15-19 - 7th International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW-7), Barcelona, Spain
- Jun 15-19 - 7th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics, Zrenjanin, Serbia
- Jun 15-19 - Conference: Modern Challenges in Nonlinear Plasma Physics, Halkidiki, Greece
- Jun 15-19 - workshop: Physics of Galactic Nuclei, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany
- Jun 16 - Comet P/2003 A1 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (1.916 AU)
- Jun 16 - Asteroid 498 Tokio Closest Approach To Earth (1.423 AU)
- Jun 16 - Asteroid 16809 Galapagos Closest Approach To Earth (1.483 AU)
- Jun 16 - Asteroid 1772 Gagarin Closest Approach To Earth (1.475 AU)
- Jun 16-17 - 1st European Workshop on Launchers Avionics, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Jun 17 - Asteroid 7225 Huntress Closest Approach To Earth (1.714 AU)
- Jun 18 - Asteroid 4769 Castalia
Closest Approach To Earth (1.366 AU)
- Jun 18 - William Lassell's 210th Birthday (1799)
- Jun 18 - Lecture: Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, Waimea, Hawaii
- Jun 18-19 - Ground Segment Coordination Body Workshop 2009, Frascati, Italy
- Jun 19 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #202 (OTM-202)
- Jun 20 - Asteroid 2008 YC3
Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
- Jun 20 - Asteroid 5066 Garradd Closest Approach To Earth (0.719 AU)
- Jun 21 - Summer Solstice,
05:45 UT
- Jun 21-26 - Symposium: Evolution of Planetary and Stellar Systems: Dynamical Interactions with DNC Lin, Prato, Italy
- Jun 22 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Jun 22 - Comet P/2009 F7 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (1.701 AU)
- Jun 22 - Dwarf Planet 134340 Pluto
Closest Approach To Earth (30.664 AU)
- Jun 22 - Asteroid 2008 WM64
Near-Earth Flyby (0.045 AU)
- Jun 22 - Asteroid 2008 EL68 Near-Earth Flyby (0.050 AU)
- Jun 22 - Asteroid 2000 AH205 Near-Earth Flyby (0.069 AU)
- Jun 22 - Asteroid 5811 Keck Closest Approach To Earth (1.066 AU)
- Jun 22 - Asteroid 3208 Fraschetti Closest Approach To Earth (1.075 AU)
- Jun 22 - Asteroid 1940 Whipple Closest Approach To Earth (2.254 AU)
- Jun 22-24 -[May 14] Symposium: NASA Earth System Science at 20 - Accomplishments, Plans, and Challenges, Washington DC
- Jun 22-24 - 6th Orlov Conference: The Study of the Earth as a Planet by Methods of Geophysics, Geodesy and Astronomy, Kiev, Ukraine
- Jun 22-25 - Conference: Observing the Dark Universe with Euclid, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Jun 22-26 - 1st International Conference on Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, Paris, France
- Jun 22-26 - 8th International e-VLBI Workshop, Madrid, Spain
- Jun 22-26 - Galaxy Metabolism Conference: Galaxy Evolution Near and Far, Sydney, Australia
- Jun 22-26 - IPMU International Conference: Dark Energy - Lighting Up The Darkness!, Kashiwa, Japan
- Jun 22-26 - HELAS-NA5 Workshop: Synergies Between Solar and Stellar Modelling, Rome, Italy
- Jun 23 - Pluto
At Opposition
- Jun 23 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 3 Near-Jupiter Flyby (0.286 AU)
- Jun 23 - Comet C/2008 Q3 (Garradd)
Perihelion (1.798 AU)
- Jun 24 - TerreStar 1 Ariane 5 Launch
- Jun 24 - Comet C/2009 F1 (Larson)
Perihelion (1.838 AU)
- Jun 24 - Asteroid 10050 Rayman Closest Approach To Earth (1.007 AU)
- Jun 24 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Cassini, 2nd Venus Flyby
- Jun 24 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Salyut 3 Launch (USSR Space Station)
- Jun 24-26 - ESA's 2nd Swarm International Science Meeting, Potsdam, Germany
- Jun 24-Jul 01 - Summer School on Particle Physics, Cosmology and Strings, Waterloo, Canada
- Jun 25 - Asteroid 5720 Halweaver Closest Approach To Earth (1.939 AU)
- Jun 26 -[May 09] GOES-O
Delta 4 Launch
- Jun 26 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #203 (OTM-203)
- Jun 26 - Asteroid 742 Edisona Closest Approach To Earth (1.891 AU)
- Jun 28 - Asteroid 2001 FE90
Near-Earth Flyby (0.018 AU)
- Jun 28 - Asteroid 4511 Rembrandt Closest Approach To Earth (1.006 AU)
- Jun 28-Jul 01 - 2009 Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) Annual Meeting and Technical Conference, Green Bank, West Virginia
- Jun 28-Jul 03 - Conference: The Many Faces of Centaurus A, Sydney, Australia
- Jun 29 -[Jun 06] Sirius FM-5 Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Jun 29 - Asteroid 2008 EV68 Near-Mars Flyby (0.033 AU)
- Jun 29 - Asteroid 4664 Hanner Closest Approach To Earth (1.769 AU)
- Jun 29-Jul 02 - Conference: The Energetic Cosmos - from Suzaku to Astro-H, Otaru, Japan
- Jun 29-Jul 03 - Invisible Universe International Conference, Paris France
- Jun 29-Jul 03 - 4th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Chamonix, France
- Jun 29-Jul 03 - ASTROCAM School: Young Stellar Objects: From Cool Stars to Exoplanets, Madrid, Spain
- Jun 29-Jul 04 - Annual Meeting of the French Astronomical Society, Besancon, France
- Jun 29-Jul 13 - Nordic-NASA Summer School: Water, Ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Jun 30 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #204 (OTM-204)
- Jun 30 -[May 09] Comet 219P/LINEAR
Closest Approach To Earth (1.853 AU)
- Jun 30 - Asteroid 2006 MV1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
July 2009
- Jul ?? - Dragon 1 Falcon 9 Launch
- Jul ?? - Zohreh 1 Soyuz FG-Fregat Launch
- Jul ?? - Dialog 1 Rokot-Briz Launch
- Jul ?? - Eros C Start 1 Launch (Israel)
- Jul ?? - Sudansat 1 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Jul ?? - Thor 6 Ariane 5 Launch
- Jul ?? - Equars VLS-1 Launch (Brazil)
- Jul ?? - Condor E Strela Launch
- Jul ?? - Sinosat 4 CZ-3B Launch
- Jul ?? - Optus D-3 Ariane 5 Launch
- Jul ?? - Amsat Phase 3E Express Ariane 5 Launch
- Jul ?? - Hausat 2 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Jul ?? - Cosmos-Liana Soyuz U Launch
- Jul 01 - Asteroid 18626 Michaelcarr Closest Approach To Earth (1.142 AU)
- Jul 01 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Giotto, Earth Flyby
- Jul 02 - Asteroid 82332 Las Vegas Closest Approach To Earth (1.667 AU)
- Jul 03 - Asteroid 12104 Chesley Closest Approach To Earth (1.946 AU)
- Jul 04 - Earth
At Aphelion (1.017 AU From Sun)
- Jul 04 - Asteroid 7 Iris at Opposition (8.7 Magnitude)
- Jul 04 - Galaxy Forum USA 2009, San Jose, California
- Jul 04 - 955th Anniversary (1054), The Crab Nebula Supernova
- Jul 05 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #205 (OTM-205)
- Jul 05 - Comet C/2009 E1 (Itagaki)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.923 AU)
- Jul 05 - Asteroid 9950 ESA
Closest Approach To Earth (0.875 AU)
- Jul 05 - Asteroid 2675 Tolkien Closest Approach To Earth (1.171 AU)
- Jul 05-10 - Gordon Research Conference: Origins of Solar Systems, South Hadley, Massachusetts
- Jul 06 - Comet C/2006 W3 (Christensen) Perihelion (3.127 AU)
- Jul 06-08 - Planetary Decadal Survey 2009-2011: First Meeting, Washington DC
- Jul 06-08 - Joint European/Japanese Workshop on the SPICA Space Mission, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Jul 06-10 - 25th IAP Annual Colloquium: The Lyman Alpha Universe, Paris, France
- Jul 06-10 - Conference: L'Univers Invisible - Energie Noire et Matiere Noire, Paris, France
- Jul 07 - Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
- Jul 07 - Asteroid 2710 Veverka Closest Approach To Earth (1.486 AU)
- Jul 07-12 -[May 14] 2009 FQXi International Conference: Exploring the Foundations and Boundaries of Physics and Cosmology, Ponta Delgada, Azores
- Jul 08 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Jul 08 - Asteroid 6560 Pravdo Closest Approach To Earth (1.074 AU)
- Jul 08 - Asteroid 6470 Aldrin Closest Approach To Earth (1.330 AU)
- Jul 08-10 - Workshop: Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae in the Chandra Era , Boston, Massachusetts
- Jul 08-12 - 9th Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop, Notre Dame, Indiana
- Jul 08-15 - 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference, Lodz, Poland
- Jul 09 - Asteroid 16035 Sasandford Closest Approach To Earth (1.522 AU)
- Jul 09 - Asteroid 4766 Malin Closest Approach To Earth (1.922 AU)
- Jul 09 - Asteroid 3693 Barringer Closest Approach To Earth (1.990 AU)
- Jul 09 - 30th Anniversary (1979), Voyager 2, Jupiter Flyby
- Jul 10 - Asteroid 2001 HY7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
- Jul 10 - Asteroid 63163 Jerusalem Closest Approach To Earth (1.706 AU)
- Jul 11 - Cassini, Distant Dione Flyby
- Jul 11 - Asteroid 1221 Amor Closest Approach To Earth (1.084 AU)
- Jul 11 - Asteroid 14967 Madrid Closest Approach To Earth (1.431 AU)
- Jul 11 - Asteroid 5102 Benfranklin Closest Approach To Earth (1.657 AU)
- Jul 11 - 30th Anniversary (1979), Skylab Re-Enters Into Earth's Atmosphere
- Jul 12 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #206 (OTM-206)
- Jul 12 - Asteroid 13609 Lewicki Closest Approach To Earth (1.325 AU)
- Jul 12-18 - 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Paris, France
- Jul 12-18 - 5th NAIC/NRAO Single-Dish Summer School, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
- Jul 13 - Asteroid 5790 Nagasaki Closest Approach To Earth (1.363 AU)
- Jul 13 - Asteroid 4783 Wasson Closest Approach To Earth (2.063 AU)
- Jul 13-17 - Workshop: Distribution of Mass in the Milky Way Galaxy, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Jul 13-18 - 72nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Nancy, France
- Jul 15 - Asiasat 5 Proton M Launch
- Jul 15-17 - 2009 Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM) Instrument Workshop, Laurel, Maryland
- Jul 16 - SMOS/Proba 2 Rokot KM Launch
- Jul 16 - Comet C/2008 N1 (Holmes)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.576 AU)
- Jul 16 - Asteroid 2933 Amber Closest Approach To Earth (1.510 AU)
- Jul 16 - Lecture: Exploring the Moon, Pasadena, California
- Jul 16 - Lecture: Joint Astronomy Centre, Waimea, Hawaii
- Jul 16 - 40th Anniversary (1969),
Apollo 11 Launch (1st Manned Moon Landing)
- Jul 16-17 - Conference: The Long View - 400 Years of the Telescope, Greenwich, United Kingdom
- Jul 16-22 - 2009 International Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics, Dunhuang, China
- Jul 16-22 - 15th Anniversary (1994), Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impacts on Jupiter
- Jul 17 - PAN Atlas 5 Launch
- Jul 17 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #207 (OTM-207)
- Jul 17 - Asteroid 4535 Adamcarolla Closest Approach To Earth (1.523 AU)
- Jul 17 - Lecture: Exploring the Moon, Pasadena, California
- Jul 17-18 - IJCAI-09 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space (IJCAI-09), Pasadena, California
- Jul 17-20 - Astrobiology Graduate Student Conference 2009 (AbGradCon), Seattle, Washington
- Jul 17-20 - Space Frontier Foundation NewSpace Conference, Mountain View, California
- Jul 18 - Asteroid 2008 NP3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU)
- Jul 18 - Asteroid 6318 Cronkite Closest Approach To Earth (2.372 AU)
- Jul 19 - Asteroid 17898 Scottsheppard Closest Approach To Earth (1.011 AU)
- Jul 19-22 - Conference: Galaxy Wars - Stellar Populations and Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies, Johnson City Tennessee
- Jul 19-23 - 3rd International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT 2009), Pasadena, California
- Jul 19-24 - Meeting: New Technologies for Probing the Diversity of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets, Shanghai, China
- Jul 19-29 - Joint Assembly Meeting of IAMAS, IAPSO and IACS (MOCA-09), Montreal, Canada
- Jul 20 - Asteroid 2006 TU7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
- Jul 20 - Asteroid 8749 Beatles Closest Approach To Earth (1.593 AU)
- Jul 20 - Asteroid 12927 Pinocchio Closest Approach To Earth (1.307 AU)
- Jul 20 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Retrieval Of Liberty Bell 7 Capsule From Ocean Floor
- Jul 20 - 40th Anniversary (1969),
1st Man On The Moon (Apollo 11)
- Jul 20-23 - NASA 2009 Lunar Science Forum, Moffett Field, California
- Jul 20-24 - 2009 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop: Exoplanetary Atmospheres, Pasadena, California
- Jul 20-24 - NASA's 21st Annual Planetary Science Summer School - Session 1, Pasadena, California
- Jul 20-24 - 4th Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, Shanghai, China
- Jul 20-24 - Conference: From Core to Crust - Towards an Integrated Vision of Earth's Interior, Trieste, Italy
- Jul 20-24 - 13th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors, Stanford, California
- Jul 20-25 - Workshop: Massive Black Hole Binaries and Their Coalescence in Galactic Nuclei, Beijing, China
- Jul 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #208 (OTM-208)
- Jul 21 - 95th Anniversary (1914), Seth Nicholson's
Discovery of Jupiter Moon Sinope
- Jul 21-24 - 3rd International Workshop on Mars Polar Energy Balance and the CO2 Cycle, Seattle, Washington
- Jul 21-26 - 21st Century Midwest Star Party: EPOCH 2009, Beaver City, Indiana
- Jul 22 - Total Solar Eclipse
- Jul 22 - Comet C/2008 P1 (Garradd)
Perihelion (3.896 AU)
- Jul 22 - Asteroid 3623 Chaplin Closest Approach To Earth (1.684 AU)
- Jul 22 - Friedrich Bessel's 225th Birthday (1784)
- Jul 23-25 - 13th Paris Cosmology Colloquium 2009: The Standard Model of the Universe - From Inflation to Today Dark Energy, Paris, France
- Jul 24 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Jul 24 - Asteroid 2006 LC Near-Pallas Flyby (0.036 AU)
- Jul 25 - Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS-3) F-3 Delta 4M Launch
- Jul 25 - Comet P/1999 XB69 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (1.652 AU)
- Jul 25 - Asteroid 2001 GM2 Near-Mars Flyby (0.023 AU)
- Jul 25 - 25th Anniversary (1984), 1st Woman Spacewalk (Svetlana Savitskaya)
- Jul 26 - Cassini, Distant Tethys Flyby
- Jul 26 - Asteroid 2005 SP9 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.034 AU)
- Jul 26 - Asteroid 8734 Warner Closest Approach To Earth (1.832 AU)
- Jul 26 - Asteroid 9250 Chamberlin Closest Approach To Earth (1.862 AU)
- Jul 27 - Asteroid 2009 DC12
Near-Earth Flyby (0.050 AU)
- Jul 27 - Asteroid 5703 Hevelius Closest Approach To Earth (1.706 AU)
- Jul 27-28 - The New Martian Chemistry Workshop, Medford, Massachusetts
- Jul 27-29 - Workshop: Extreme Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Jul 27-Oct 02 - Conference: Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Plasmas, Santa Babara, California
- Jul 28 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #209 (OTM-209)
- Jul 28 - Asteroid 6312 Robheinlein Closest Approach To Earth (1.275 AU)
- Jul 28 - 45th Anniversary (1964), Ranger 7 Launch (Moon Impact Mission)
- Jul 29 - DMSP F-18
Atlas 5 Launch
- Jul 29 - South Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- Jul 29 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Deep Space 1Deep Space 1,
Asteroid Braille Flyby
- Jul 29-30 -[May 09] 21st Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) Meeting , Providence, Rhode Island
- Jul 29-Aug 01 - NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2009), San Francisco, California
- Jul 30 - AEHF F-1
Atlas 5 Launch
- Jul 30 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Cassini, Saturn Orbit Insertion
- Jul 31 - Asteroid 9134 Encke Closest Approach To Earth (1.799 AU)
- Jul 31 - Asteroid 7853 Confucius Closest Approach To Earth (2.594 AU)
- Jul 31 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Lunar Prospector, Moon Impact
- Jul 31 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Mariner 6, Mars Flyby
August 2009
- Aug ?? - Ares I-X
Test Flight
- Aug ?? - IGS-4A/
IGS-4B H-2A Launch
- Aug ?? - Cassiope 1 Falcon 9 Launch
- Aug ?? - JC-Sat 12 Ariane 5 Launch
- Aug ?? - TanDEM-X Dnepr 1 Launch
- Aug ?? - Cosmos-Garpun N-1 Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Aug 01 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #210 (OTM-210)
- Aug 01 - Alpha Capricornids Meteor Shower Peak
- Aug 02 - Asteroid 243 Ida
Closest Approach To Earth (1.912 AU)
- Aug 02-07 - Astrochemistry Symposium: 42nd IUPAC Congress, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Aug 03 - Asteroid 2009 HV77
Near-Earth Flyby (0.075 AU)
- Aug 03 - 5th Anniversary (2004), MESSENGER
Delta 2 Launch
- Aug 03-05 - Joint Discussion IAU-GA: Dark Matter in Early-Type Galaxies, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Aug 03-07 - IAU Symposium 263: Icy Bodies in the Solar System, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Aug 03-07 - IAU Symposium 264: Solar and Stellar Variability - Impact on Earth and Planets, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Aug 03-07 - NASA's 21st Annual Planetary Science Summer School - Session 2, Pasadena, California
- Aug 03-07 - 10th International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas, Berkeley, California
- Aug 03-14 - XXVII IAU General Assemby, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Aug 04 -[May 13] Comet 22P/Kopff
Closest Approach To Earth (0.775 AU)
- Aug 05 - Asteroid 16 Psyche
At Opposition (9.3 Magnitude)
- Aug 05 - Asteroid 1537 Transylvania Closest Approach To Earth (1.547 AU)
- Aug 05 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Mariner 7 Mars Flyby
- Aug 05-06 - Workshop on Robots Supporting Human Science and Exploration, Houston, Texas
- Aug 06 - STS-128 Launch, Space Shuttle Atlantis (International Space Station)
- Aug 06 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #211 (OTM-211)
- Aug 06 - Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
- Aug 06 - Southern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- Aug 06 - Asteroid 3773 Smithsonian Closest Approach To Earth (0.823 AU)
- Aug 06 - Asteroid 19148 Alaska Closest Approach To Earth (2.435 AU)
- Aug 07 - Comet P/2001 R6 (LINEAR-Skiff)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.871 AU)
- Aug 07 - Asteroid 2006 UL185 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.032 AU)
- Aug 07-08 - Fifth International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy (IWCA V), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Aug 07-08 - Annual Astronomical League Convention and Exposition (ALCON 2009),
- Aug 08 - Asteroid 2322 Kitt Peak Closest Approach To Earth (1.245 AU)
- Aug 08 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Zond 7 Launch (Soviet Moon Mission)
- Aug 09 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Aug 09 -[May 14] Comet 24P/Schaumasse
Perihelion (1.214 AU)
- Aug 09 - Asteroid 2007 RQ17 Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
- Aug 09-13 - 2009 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Aug 10 - Asteroid 2000 SJ8 Near-Mars Flyby (0.026 AU)
- Aug 10 - Asteroid 7934 Sinatra Closest Approach To Earth (1.943 AU)
- Aug 10 - Kuiper Belt Object 2004 PG115
Closest Approach To Earth (35.781 AU)
- Aug 10-13 - Conference: Astronomy and Civilization, Budapest, Hungary
- Aug 10-14 - IAU Symposium 265: Chemical Abundances in the Universe - Connecting First Stars to Planets, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Aug 10-14 - IAU Symposium 266: Star Clusters - Basic Galactic Building Blocks Throughout Time And Space, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Aug 10-14 - IAU Symposium 267: Evolution of Galaxies and Central Black Holes - Feeding and Feedback, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Aug 10-14 - 4th Heidelberg Summer School: Statistical Inferences from Astrophysical Data, Heidelberg, Germany
- Aug 11 - Comet 95P/Chiron Closest Approach To Earth (14.935 AU)
- Aug 11 - Asteroid 12524 Conscience Closest Approach To Earth (0.871 AU)
- Aug 11 - Asteroid 3255 Tholen Closest Approach To Earth (1.429 AU)
- Aug 11-15 - 6th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2009), Suntec City, Singapore
- Aug 12 - Perseids Meteor Shower Peak
- Aug 12 -[May 14] Comet 24P/Schaumasse
Closest Approach To Earth (2.219 AU)
- Aug 12 - Asteroid 2006 BM8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.069 AU)
- Aug 12 - Asteroid 9253 Oberth Closest Approach To Earth (0.976 AU)
- Aug 12 - Asteroid 13667 Samthurman Closest Approach To Earth (1.187 AU)
- Aug 13 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #212 (OTM-212)
- Aug 13 - Comet P/2004 X1 (LINEAR) Near-Earth Flyby (0.194 AU)
- Aug 13 - Lecture: W.M. Keck Observatory, Waimea, Hawaii
- Aug 14 - GPS 2RM F-8 Delta 2 Launch
- Aug 14 - Jupiter
At Opposition
- Aug 14 - Workshop on Modern Problems of Astrophysics and Cosmology, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
- Aug 14 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Galileo, Callisto 22 Flyby
- Aug 15 - Asteroid 84225 Verish Closest Approach To Earth (1.638 AU)
- Aug 16 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #213 (OTM-213)
- Aug 16 - Asteroid 434 Hungaria Closest Approach To Earth (0.854 AU)
- Aug 17 -[May 10] Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) 1 & 2 Delta 2 Launch
- Aug 17 - Neptune
At Opposition
- Aug 17 - Comet 89P/Russell At Perihelion (2.280 AU)
- Aug 17 - Asteroid 163697 (2003 EF54) Near-Earth Flyby (0.053 AU)
- Aug 17-21 - Conference: The Dynamics of Discs and Planets, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Aug 17-21 - Conference: Stellar Death and Supernovae, Santa Barbara, California
- Aug 17-21 - Workshop: Reionization with Multi-frequency Datasets, Stockholm, Sweden
- Aug 17-21 - Summer School on Stellar Collapse, Compact Objects, Supernovae, and Gamma-Ray Bursts, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Aug 18 - Moon Occults Vesta
- Aug 18 - Asteroid 2002 RQ25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU)
- Aug 18 - Asteroid 6373 Stern Closest Approach To Earth (1.846 AU)
- Aug 18 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Cassini, Earth Flyby
- Aug 19 - MESSENGER, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #31 (TCM-31)
- Aug 20 - Asteroid 2005 CW25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
- Aug 20 - Asteroid 2006 SQ372
Closest Approach To Earth (23.328 AU)
- Aug 20 - Lecture: From Legs to Wheels, Pasadena, California
- Aug 20-23 - 2nd Annual Earth Wind and Sky Star Party, Barry Illinois
- Aug 20-23 - Julian Starfest II, Julian, California
- Aug 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #214 (OTM-214)
- Aug 21 - Asteroid 88 Thisbe
At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude)
- Aug 21 - Asteroid 4151 Alanhale Closest Approach To Earth (2.578 AU)
- Aug 21 - Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Closest Approach To Earth (84.893 AU)
- Aug 21 - Lecture: From Legs to Wheels, Pasadena, California
- Aug 21-23 - A Festival of Cosmic Explosions: Celebrating the Contributions and Accomplishments of Roger Chevalier, Pasadena, California
- Aug 22 - Asteroid 1566 Icarus Closest Approach To Earth (0.404 AU)
- Aug 22 - Asteroid 1886 Lowell Closest Approach To Earth (1.310 AU)
- Aug 22 - Asteroid 55 Pandora Closest Approach To Earth (1.463 AU)
- Aug 22 - Asteroid 3192 A'Hearn Closest Approach To Earth (1.767 AU)
- Aug 23 - Asteroid 12426 Racquetball Closest Approach To Earth (1.282 AU)
- Aug 23-30 - International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) 11th Scientific Assembly, Sopron, Hungary
- Aug 24 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern
Elongation (27 Degrees)
- Aug 24 - Asteroid 2005 QQ87 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
- Aug 24-26 - International Conference on Space Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Aug 24-27 - 2009 International Kepler Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
- Aug 24-27 - CALCON Technical Conference: Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing, Logan, Utah
- Aug 24-28 - Workshop: Microphysics in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics (MICRA 2009), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Aug 25 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Aug 25 - Intelsat 14 Atlas 5 Launch
- Aug 25 - Northern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- Aug 25 - Asteroid 1855 Korolev Closest Approach To Earth (1.404 AU)
- Aug 25 - 20th Anniversary (1989), Voyager 2 Neptune Flyby
- Aug 26 - Asteroid 10001 Palermo Closest Approach To Earth (1.233 AU)
- Aug 26-28 - 1st IEEE GRSS Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing, Genoble, France
- Aug 27 - Cassini, Telesto Flyby
- Aug 27 - Comet 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT
Closest Approach To Earth (1.286 AU)
- Aug 27 - Asteroid 69230 Hermes
Closest Approach To Earth (1.484 AU)
- Aug 28 - Asteroid 2008 KT Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
- Aug 28 - Asteroid 6135 Billowen Closest Approach To Earth (1.636 AU)
- Aug 28 - 220th Anniversary (1789), William Herschel's Discovery of Saturn Moon
Enceladus
- Aug 29 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #215 (OTM-215)
- Aug 29 - Comet 104P/Kowal 2
Closest Approach To Earth (1.898 AU)
- Aug 30-Sep 05 - Conference: Natrual Dynamos, Stara Lesna, Slovakia
- Aug 31-Sep 04 - 3rd Astrophysics of Neutron Stars Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey
September 2009
- Sep ?? - Amazonas 2 Ariane 5 Launch
- Sep ?? - Canopus 1 Strela Launch
- Sep ?? - TacSat 1 Falcon 1 Launch
- Sep ?? - TacSat 4 Minotaur 4 Launch
- Sep ?? - Helios 2 Ariane 5 Launch
- Sep ?? - X-Sat PSLV Launch
- Sep ?? - SRE-2 PSLV Launch
- Sep ?? - HealthSat (G-Sat 4)/
Tauvex
GSLV Launch
- Sep 01 - HTV-Demo Test Flight H-2B Launch (International Space Station, Japan)
- Sep 01 - Asteroid 327 Columbia Closest Approach To Earth (1.621 AU)
- Sep 01 - 30th Anniversary (1979), Pioneer 11, Saturn Flyby
- Sep 02 - Comet 217P/LINEAR
Closest Approach To Earth (0.577 AU)
- Sep 02 - 205th Anniversary (1804), Karl Harding's Discovery of
Asteroid 3 Juno
- Sep 04 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #216 (OTM-216)
- Sep 04 - Saturn's Rings Edge-on From Earth
- Sep 04 - Asteroid 2006 SV217 Near-Earth Flyby (0.006 AU)
- Sep 06 - Asteroid 15845 Bambi Closest Approach To Earth (1.066 AU)
- Sep 06 - Asteroid 26868 Misterrogers Closest Approach To Earth (1.604 AU)
- Sep 06 - American Astronomical Society's 110th Birthday (1899)
- Sep 06-19 - COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop 2009: Lunar and Planetary Surface Science, Harbin, China
- Sep 07 - Asteroid 11945 Amsterdam Closest Approach To Earth (1.658 AU)
- Sep 07-11 - X-ray Astronomy 2009 Workshop: Present Status, Multiwavelength Approach and Future Perspectives, Bologna, Italy
- Sep 07-11 - Atmospheric Science Conference, Barcelona, Spain
- Sep 07-11 - Spanish Relativity Meeting 2009, Bilbao, Spain
- Sep 07-13 -[May 09] IHY-ISWI Regional Meeting : Heliophysical Phenomena and Earth's Environment, Sibenik, Croatia
- Sep 07-13 -[May 11] International Conference of Young Astronomers (ICYA), Cracow, Poland
- Sep 08 - Comet 217P/LINEAR
Perihelion (1.224 AU)
- Sep 08 - Asteroid 433 Eros
Closest Approach To Earth (0.989 AU)
- Sep 08 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Genesis, Return To Earth
- Sep 08-12 - International Conference: Nonstationary Phenomena and Instabilities in Astrophysics (NPIA-09), Volgograd, Russia
- Sep 09 - Asteroid 9777 Enterprise Closest Approach To Earth (1.029 AU)
- Sep 09 - Asteroid 2709 Sagan Closest Approach To Earth (1.330 AU)
- Sep 09 - William Bond's 220th Birthday (1789)
- Sep 09 - Asteroid 9252 Goddard Closest Approach To Earth (1.563 AU)
- Sep 09-11 - Brown Dwarf Workshop: Recipes for Making Brownies - Theory vs. Observations, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Sep 12 -[May 13] Comet P/2000 Y3 (Scotti)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.899 AU)
- Sep 12 - Asteroid 1831 Nicholson Closest Approach To Earth (1.249 AU)
- Sep 12 - Asteroid 2865 Laurel Closest Approach To Earth (1.581 AU)
- Sep 12 - Asteroid 7610 Sudbury Closest Approach To Earth (1.931 AU)
- Sep 12 - 50th Anniversary (1959), Luna 2 Launch (USSR Moon Impact Mission)
- Sep 12-16 - 2009 Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) Meeting, Millbrae, California
- Sep 13 - Moon Occults Mars
- Sep 13 - Asteroid 2007 UT3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.068 AU)
- Sep 13 - Asteroid 3001 Michelangelo Closest Approach To Earth (1.375 AU)
- Sep 13-18 - European Planetary Science Congress 2009 (EPSC 2009), Potsdam, Germany
- Sep 14 - Asteroid 5471 Tunguska Closest Approach To Earth (1.927 AU)
- Sep 14 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Charles Kowal's Discovery Of Jupiter Moon
Leda
- Sep 14-18 - Conference: Pathways Towards Habitable Planets, Barcelona, Spain
- Sep 14-18 - Conference: Nearby Dwarf Galaxies, Nizhnij Arkhyz, Russia
- Sep 14-19 - 2nd Symposium for Dark-sky Parks and 2nd Dark-sky Camp, Lastovo island, Croatia
- Sep 15 - Asteroid 42 Isis
At Opposition (9.5 Magnitude)
- Sep 15-17 - Mars Dust Cycle Workshop, Moffett Field, California
- Sep 15-17 - European Conference on Spacecraft Structures, Materials & Mechanical Testing, Toulouse, France
- Sep 15-18 - 11th International Symposium on Materials in Space Environment (ISMSE 2009), Aix en Provence, France
- Sep 16 - Asteroid 1776 Kuiper Closest Approach To Earth (2.115 AU)
- Sep 16 - Human Dependability Workshop (HUDEP 2009), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Sep 17 - Uranus
At Opposition
- Sep 17 - Asteroid 2008 EJ68 Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)
- Sep 17 - Asteroid 2000 CO101 Near-Earth Flyby (0.046 AU)
- Sep 17 - Asteroid 8299 Tealeoni Closest Approach To Earth (1.243 AU)
- Sep 17 - Lecture: Measuring Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide From Space - The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission, Pasadena, California
- Sep 17 - Lecture: Subaru Telescope, Waimea, Hawaii
- Sep 17 - 220th Anniversary (1789), William Herschel's Discovery of Saturn Moon
Mimas
- Sep 17-18 - 3rd Coastal Altimetry Workshop, Frascati, Italy
- Sep 18 - Lecture: Measuring Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide From Space - The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission, Pasadena, California
- Sep 18 - 40th Anniversary (1959), Vanguard 3 Launch
- Sep 18-20 - Stokes Star Party, Highlands, New Jersey
- Sep 20 - Asteroid 5050 Doctorwatson Closest Approach To Earth (1.187 AU)
- Sep 20 - Asteroid 5535 Annefrank
Closest Approach To Earth (1.301 AU)
- Sep 20 - Asteroid 1000 Piazzia Closest Approach To Earth (2.499 AU)
- Sep 20-23 - Workshop: Solar Analogs II, Flagstaff, Arizona
- Sep 20-23 - 27th IAS Meeting OF Sedimentologists, Alghero, Italy
- Sep 20-27 - 5th European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics, Santa Tecla, Italy
- Sep 20-30 - NOVICOSMO 2009 Summer School: Highlights in Astrophysics, Rabac, Croatia
- Sep 21 - Asteroid 16761 Hertz Closest Approach To Earth (1.178 AU)
- Sep 21 - Chandra Calibration Review, Boston, Massachusetts
- Sep 21 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Mariner 10, 2nd Mercury Flyby
- Sep 21 - Gustav Holst's 135th Birthday (1874)
- Sep 21-24 - 9th Hellenic Astronomical Conference, Athens, Greece
- Sep 21-25 - International Conference: Asteroid-Comet Hazard - 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Sep 21-25 - SOHO-23 Workshop: Understanding a Peculiar Solar Minimum, Northeast Harbor, Maine
- Sep 21-25 - 82nd Astronomische Gesellschaft Annual Meeting: Deciphering the Universe through Spectroscopy, Potsdam, Germany
- Sep 21-25 - Meeting: Ocean Information for Society - Sustaining the Benefits, Realizing the Potential (OceanObs09), Venice, Italy
- Sep 21-Oct 02 - Workshop: Stellar Mergers, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Sep 22 - Autumnal Equinox,
21:18 UT
- Sep 22 - Asteroid 3 Juno At Opposition (7.8 Magnitude)
- Sep 22 - Asteroid 5281 Lindstrom Closest Approach To Earth (1.689 AU)
- Sep 22-23 - 5th UN/ESA/NASA/JAXA Workshop on Basic Space Science and the International Heliophysical Year 2009, Jeju, South Korea
- Sep 22-25 - Meeting: Ten Years of Science with Chandra - Chandra's First Decade of Discovery, Boston, Massachusetts
- Sep 23 - Comet C/2008 P1 (Garradd)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.028 AU)
- Sep 23 - Asteroid 1990 UA Near-Pallas Flyby (0.044 AU)
- Sep 23 - Asteroid 3252 Johnny Closest Approach To Earth (1.823 AU)
- Sep 23-25 - 13th European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium 2009, Vienna, Austria
- Sep 24 - Asteroid 20 Massalia
At Opposition (9.3 Magnitude)
- Sep 24-27 - International Meteor Conference 2009, Porec, Croatia
- Sep 25 - Comet C/2008 N1 (Holmes)
Perihelion (2.783 AU)
- Sep 25 - Asteroid 2005 CN Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
- Sep 25 - Asteroid 2005 SP9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
- Sep 25 - Asteroid 6154 Stevesynnott Closest Approach To Earth (1.280 AU)
- Sep 25 - Asteroid 6377 Cagney Closest Approach To Earth (1.870 AU)
- Sep 26 - Asteroid 2000 WC67 Near-Mars Flyby (0.012 AU)
- Sep 28 - Asteroid 2009 FS32
Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
- Sep 28-30 - Workshop: Planetesimal Formation, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Sep 28-30 - Workshop on Using the [alpha/Fe] Abundance Ratio as a Tracer of Formation and Evolution of the Galaxy, Beijing, China
- Sep 28-Oct 02 - Conference: Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas - Particle Acceleration, Magnetic Field Amplification, and Radiation Signatures, Santa Barbara, California
- Sep 28-Oct 02 -[May 12] 3rd UniverseNet School: Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Barcelona, Spain
- Sep 28-Oct 03 - Symposium: Astronomy and its Instruments Before and After Galileo, Venice, Italy
- Sep 29 - Asteroid 152664 (1998 FW4) Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
- Sep 29 - 5th Anniversary (2004), SpaceShipOne Launch F-2 (2nd Private Manned Space Flight)
- Sep 29-Oct 03 - Conference: Astronomy and its Instruments before and after Galileo, Padova, Italy
- Sep 30 - MESSENGER,
3rd Mercury Flyby
- Sep 30 - Asteroid 89 Julia
At Opposition (9.3 Magnitude)
- Sep 30 - Asteroid 2009 HD21
Near-Earth Flyby (0.083 AU)
October 2009
- Oct ?? - Phobos-Grunt Soyuz 2 Launch (Russian Phobos Sample Return Mission)
- Oct ?? - NROL-39 Atlas 5 Launch
- Oct ?? - NROL-41 Atlas 5 Launch
- Oct ?? - Microscope Ariane 5 Launch
- Oct ?? - Inaugural Falcon 9 Test Launch
- Oct ?? - Insat 3-D GSLV Launch (India)
- Oct ?? - Astra 3-B Ariane 5 Launch
- Oct ?? - Unamsat 3 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Oct ?? - Lapansat 2 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Oct ?? - Bluesat Dnepr 1 Launch
- Oct ?? - Katysat 1/
KiwiSat/Atmocube/
Cubesat-RAFT/Funsat/UCISA Dnepr 1 Launch
- Oct ?? - Electro-L N1 Zenit 2-Fregat Launch
- Oct ?? - Intelsat 15 Zenit 3SLB Launch
- Oct ?? - HJ-1C CZ-2C Launch
- Oct ?? - Prisma/
Picard Dnepr 1 Launch
- Oct 01 - Soyuz TMA-16 Soyuz FG Launch
(International Space Station 20S)
- Oct 01 - Asteroid 2006 BT7 Near-Vesta Flyby (0.012 AU)
- Oct 01 - Asteroid 21459 Chrisrussell Closest Approach To Earth (1.206 AU)
- Oct 01-02 - Wireless Sensor Networks for Space Applications Workshop (WiSens4Space 2009), Santorini, Greece
- Oct 03 - Karl Hermann Struve's 155th Birthday (1854)
- Oct 04 - Asteroid 21564 Widmanstatten Closest Approach To Earth (1.530 AU)
- Oct 04 - 5th Anniversary (2004), SpaceShipOne Launch F-3 (3rd Private Manned Space Flight)
- Oct 04 - 50th Anniversary (1959), Luna 3 Launch (USSR Moon Flyby Mission)
- Oct 04 - 50th Anniversary (1959), Little Joe 1 Launch
- Oct 04-08 - 4th International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics: New Phenomena and New States of Matter in the Universe in the AUGER, LHC, FAIR / GSI and GEO / LIGO Era, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Oct 04-09 - 41st Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, Fajardo, Puerto Rico
- Oct 04-10 - World Space Week
- Oct 05-07 -[May 13] Workshop on Interstellar Matter and Star Formation - A Multi-Wavelength Perspective, Hyderabad, India
- Oct 06 - Worldview 2 Delta 2 Launch
- Oct 06 - Asteroid 8721 AMOS Closest Approach To Earth (2.787 AU)
- Oct 06 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Cassini, 1st Targeted Titan Flyby
- Oct 07 - Comet C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring)
Perihelion (2.253 AU)
- Oct 08 -[May 14] Comet P/2008 O2 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.861 AU)
- Oct 08 - Asteroid 68216 (2001 CV26) Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
- Oct 08 - Asteroid 4969 Lawrence Closest Approach To Earth (1.110 AU)
- Oct 08 - 405th Anniversary (1604), Discovery of Supernova 1604 (Kepler's Nova)
- Oct 08-09 - Conference: Space, Time and Beyond, Pots, Germany
- Oct 09 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #217 (OTM-217)
- Oct 09 - Draconids Meteor Shower Peak
- Oct 09 - Comet 127P/Holt-Olmstead
Closest Approach To Earth (1.199 AU)
- Oct 09 - Asteroid 18 Melpomene At Opposition (7.9 Magnitude)
- Oct 09 - Asteroid 5261 Eureka Closest Approach To Earth (0.559 AU)
- Oct 09 - Asteroid 2224 Tucson Closest Approach To Earth (1.855 AU)
- Oct 09 - Asteroid 416 Vaticana Closest Approach To Earth (2.052 AU)
- Oct 10 - Asteroid 2008 TF2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU)
- Oct 11 - 15th Anniversary (1994), Magellan Burnup in Venus' Atmosphere
- Oct 12 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Oct 12 - Moon Occults Mars
- Oct 12 - Asteroid 2955 Newburn Closest Approach To Earth (1.271 AU)
- Oct 12 - Comet 88P/Howell
Perihelion (1.363 AU)
- Oct 12 - 45th Anniversary (1964), Voskhod 1 Launch
- Oct 12-14 - Geological Mapping of Mars: A Workshop on New Concepts and Tools, Il Ciocco, Italy
- Oct 12-16 - 60th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Daejeon, South Korea
- Oct 12-16 - B.V. Kukarkin Centenary Conference: Variable Stars, the Galactic Halo and Galaxy Formation, Zvenigorod, Russia
- Oct 13 - Cassini, Distant Rhea Flyby
- Oct 13 - Asteroid 40227 Tahiti Closest Approach To Earth (2.000 AU)
- Oct 13 - Asteroid 661 Hildebrand Closest Approach To Earth (2.485 AU)
- Oct 13 - 50th Anniversary (1959), Explorer 7 Launch
- Oct 13-16 - Workshop: Towards Other Earths - Perspectives and Limitations in the ELT Era, Porto, Portugal
- Oct 14 - Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Atlas 5 Launch
- Oct 14 - Cassini, Distant Mimas & Tethys Flyby
- Oct 14 - Asteroid 3061 Cook Closest Approach To Earth (1.610 AU)
- Oct 14 - Dwarf Planet 136199 Eris (2003 UB313)
Closest Approach To Earth (95.725 AU)
- Oct 14-16 - 2nd International Colloquium on Fundamental Aspects and Scientific Applications of Galileo and GNSS, Padua, Italy
- Oct 14-16 - Workshop on the Retrieval of Geophysical Variables Using High Spatial Resolution Optical Imagery, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Oct 14-16 - Conference: Advanced Lightweight Structures and Reflector Antennas, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Oct 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #218 (OTM-218)
- Oct 15 - Asteroid 2007 SV1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
- Oct 15 - Asteroid 2008 UB95 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
- Oct 15 - Asteroid 12760 Maxwell Closest Approach To Earth (1.841 AU)
- Oct 15 - Kuiper Belt Object 15760 (1992 QB1)
Closest Approach To Earth (40.078 AU)
- Oct 15 - Lecture: How to Drive a Robot, Pasadena, California
- Oct 15 - Lecture: Smithsonian Submillimeter Array, Waimea, Hawaii
- Oct 15 - Asaph Hall's 180th Birthday (1829)
- Oct 16 - Asteroid 5254 Ulysses Closest Approach To Earth (3.799 AU)
- Oct 16 - Lecture: How to Drive a Robot, Pasadena, California
- Oct 16-18 - 2nd Halifax Meeting on Computational Astrophysics, Halifax, Canada
- Oct 17 - Asteroid 23990 Springsteen Closest Approach To Earth (1.075 AU)
- Oct 17 - Asteroid 2620 Santana Closest Approach To Earth (1.660 AU)
- Oct 17 - Asteroid 4446 Carolyn Closest Approach To Earth (2.614 AU)
- Oct 18 - GPS 2F F-1 Delta 4M Launch
- Oct 18 - 20th Anniversary (1989), Galileo Launch (Jupiter Orbiter)
- Oct 18-21 - 2009 Geological Society of America (GSA) Meeting, Portland, Oregon
- Oct 18-23 - 6th International Conference on The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena: Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Galileo's First Astronomical Uses of the Telescope, Venice, Italy
- Oct 19 - Asteroid 1999 TM12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)
- Oct 19 - Asteroid 9548 Fortran Closest Approach To Earth (1.077 AU)
- Oct 19-23 - Galactic Center Workshop 2009: The Galactic Center - A Window to the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies, Shanghai, China
- Oct 19-23 - Conference: Hunting for the Dark - The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation, Malta
- Oct 20 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #219 (OTM-219)
- Oct 20 - Asteroid 2009 BD
Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU)
- Oct 20 - Asteroid 159402 (1999 AP10)
Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
- Oct 20 - Asteroid 2001 Einstein Closest Approach To Earth (1.175 AU)
- Oct 20 - Asteroid 99905 Jeffgrossman Closest Approach To Earth (2.205 AU)
- Oct 20 - Asteroid 588 Achilles Closest Approach To Earth (3.799 AU)
- Oct 21 - Orionids Meteor Shower Peak
- Oct 21 - Comet 127P/Holt-Olmstead
Perihelion (2.196 AU)
- Oct 21 - Asteroid 2906 Caltech Closest Approach To Earth (1.982 AU)
- Oct 21 - Asteroid 7392 Kowalski Closest Approach To Earth (2.098 AU)
- Oct 21 - Asteroid 12397 Peterbrown Closest Approach To Earth (2.440 AU)
- Oct 22 - Comet Wilson-Harrington
Perihelion (0.99 AU)
- Oct 22 - Asteroid 25275 Jocelynbell Closest Approach To Earth (1.156 AU)
- Oct 22 - Asteroid 5553 Chodas Closest Approach To Earth (2.101 AU)
- Oct 23 - Asteroid 2003 EP4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.067 AU)
- Oct 25 - Asteroid 8837 London Closest Approach To Earth (1.508 AU)
- Oct 26 - Asteroid 7495 Feynman Closest Approach To Earth (1.895 AU)
- Oct 26-28 - Meeting: Reionization to Exoplanets - Spitzer's Growing Legacy, Pasadena, California
- Oct 26-30 - 1st Galileo-Xu Guangqi Meeting: The Sun, the Stars,the Universe and General Relativity, Shanghai, China
- Oct 26-30 - Conference: High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows II, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Oct 27 - Asteroid 7536 Fahrenheit Closest Approach To Earth (1.920 AU)
- Oct 27 - Asteroid 2062 Aten
Closest Approach To Earth (0.840 AU)
- Oct 28 - Asteroid 2008 EL68 Near-Earth Flyby (0.062 AU)
- Oct 28 - Asteroid 2008 UC202 Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
- Oct 28 - Asteroid 9618 Johncleese Closest Approach To Earth (1.145 AU)
- Oct 28 - Asteroid 3420 Standish Closest Approach To Earth (2.305 AU)
- Oct 28 - 35th Anniverary (1974), Luna 23 Launch (USSR Moon Lander)
- Oct 29 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #220 (OTM-220)
- Oct 30 - Asteroid 25930 Spielberg Closest Approach To Earth (1.288 AU)
- Oct 30 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Discovery of the Los Angeles Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
November 2009
- Nov ?? - Astrosat 1 PSLV Launch (India)
- Nov ?? - Cryosat 2 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Nov ?? - Monitor IR1 Rokot KM Launch
- Nov ?? - Cubesats/PW-Sat 1/
Laser Relativity Satellite (LARES) Vega Launch (Inaugural Vega Launch)
- Nov ?? - Cosmos Geizer N21 Proton K Launch
- Nov ?? - Bissat Cosmos 3M Launch
- Nov ?? - Insat 4-G Ariane 5 Launch
- Nov ?? - Satcom Bw-2A Ariane 5 Launch
- Nov ?? - Gonets D1 M2-M4 Rocket KM Launch
- Nov 01 - Daylight Saving - Set Clock Back 1 Hour (United States)
- Nov 01 - Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Launch
- Nov 01 - 15th Anniversary (1994), Wind Launch
- Nov 02 - Cassini, Enceladus Flyby
- Nov 02 - Asteroid 2006 JY26 Near-Earth Flyby (0.017 AU)
- Nov 02 - Asteroid 2000 VZ44 Near-Earth Flyby (0.070 AU)
- Nov 02-05 - 2009 Fermi Symposium, Washington DC
- Nov 03 - Taurids Meteor Shower Peak
- Nov 03 - Asteroid 2874 Jim Young Closest Approach To Earth (0.954 AU)
- Nov 03 - Asteroid 32096 Puckett Closest Approach To Earth (1.521 AU)
- Nov 03 - Asteroid 2069 Hubble Closest Approach To Earth (1.971 AU)
- Nov 03-06 - Workshop: From Circumstellar Disks to Planetary Systems, Garching, Germany
- Nov 04 - Asteroid 2000 XK44 Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
- Nov 05 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #221 (OTM-221)
- Nov 05 - Asteroid 17058 Rocknroll Closest Approach To Earth (1.470 AU)
- Nov 05 - Asteroid 7861 Messenger Closest Approach To Earth (1.562 AU)
- Nov 07 - Asteroid 2006 WV1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)
- Nov 08 -[May 12] Comet 14P/Wolf
Closest Approach To Earth (2.217 AU)
- Nov 08 - Asteroid 2002 KM3
Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)
- Nov 08 - Asteroid 3753 Cruithne
Closest Approach To Earth (0.409 AU)
- Nov 08 - Asteroid 18725 Atacama Closest Approach To Earth (1.471 AU)
- Nov 08 - Asteroid 1677 Tycho Brahe Closest Approach To Earth (1.684 AU)
- Nov 09 - Asteroid 2007 JB21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.056 AU)
- Nov 09 - Asteroid 9249 Yen Closest Approach To Earth (1.448 AU)
- Nov 09 - Carl Sagan's 75th Birthday (1934)
- Nov 09-10 -[May 09] 1st Arab Impact Cratering and Astrogeology Conference, Amman, Jordan
- Nov 09-11 - Conference: Dynamics of Outer Planetary Systems, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Nov 09-12 - Conference: Galaxy Clusters in the Early Universe, Pucon, Chile
- Nov 09-13 - Fringe 2009 Workshop: Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry, Frascati, Italy
- Nov 10 - Progress M-SO-2 Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 5R)
- Nov 10 - Asteroid 2200 Pasadena Closest Approach To Earth (1.715 AU)
- Nov 11 - Rosetta,
3rd Earth Flyby
- Nov 12 - STS-129 Launch, Space Shuttle Discovery (International Space Station)
- Nov 12 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #222 (OTM-222)
- Nov 12 - Lecture: Taking a Closer Look at Exoplanet Atmospheres, Pasadena, California
- Nov 12 - Audouin Dollfus' 85th Birthday (1924)
- Nov 13 - Asteroid 11365 NASA Closest Approach To Earth (0.885 AU)
- Nov 13 - Asteroid 2410 Morrison Closest Approach To Earth (1.330 AU)
- Nov 13 - Lecture: Taking a Closer Look at Exoplanet Atmospheres, Pasadena, California
- Nov 14 - Comet C/2009 F2 (McNaught)
Perihelion (5.875 AU)
- Nov 14 - Asteroid 9860 Archaeopteryx Closest Approach To Earth (2.249 AU)
- Nov 14 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 12 Launch (Manned Moon Mission)
- Nov 15 - Asteroid 2004 PZ19 Near-Ceres Flyby (0.022 AU)
- Nov 15 - 5th Anniversary (2004), SMART-1, Moon Orbit Insertion
- Nov 16 -[May 14] Comet P/2001 YX127 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.117 AU)
- Nov 16 - Comet C/2008 S3 (Boattini)
Closest Approach To Earth (7.734 AU)
- Nov 16 - Asteroid 7328 Casanova Closest Approach To Earth (1.452 AU)
- Nov 16 - Kuiper Belt Object 90377 Sedna
Closest Approach To Earth (86.685 AU)
- Nov 16-20 - 6th European Space Weather Week, Brussels, Belgium
- Nov 17 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #223 (OTM-223)
- Nov 17 - Leonids Meteor Shower Peak
- Nov 17-18 - Workshop: Advanced RF Sensors and Remote Sensing Instruments 2009, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Nov 18 - Asteroid 202683 (2006 US216)
Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU)
- Nov 18 - 20th Anniversary (1989), COBE Launch
- Nov 18-20 - Conference: Earth Observation and Water Cycle Science, Rome, Italy
- Nov 18-21 - 5th Korean Astrophysics Workshop on Shock Waves, Turbulence, and Particle Acceleration, Pohang, Korea
- Nov 19 - Comet Wilson-Harrington
Closest Approach To Earth (0.379 AU)
- Nov 19 - Asteroid 2246 Bowell Closest Approach To Earth (3.132 AU)
- Nov 19 - Lecture: University of Hawai'i at Hilo Telescope, Waimea, Hawaii
- Nov 20 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Swift Launch
- Nov 20 - Edwin Hubble's 120th Birthday (1889)
- Nov 21 - Cassini, Enceladus & Rhea Flyby
- Nov 21 - Asteroid 1815 Beethoven Closest Approach To Earth (1.769 AU)
- Nov 21 - Asteroid 3581 Alvarez Closest Approach To Earth (1.871 AU)
- Nov 21 - Asteroid 12002 Sues Closest Approach To Earth (2.099 AU)
- Nov 22 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #224 (OTM-224)
- Nov 22 - Comet C/2009 F1 (Larson)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.673 AU)
- Nov 22 - Asteroid 1998 VF32 Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
- Nov 23 - Asteroid 2004 XJ Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
- Nov 23-27 -[May 11] Symposium: Mathematics and Astronomy - A Joint Long Journey, Madrid, Spain
- Nov 24 - Asteroid 4305 Clapton Closest Approach To Earth (1.911 AU)
- Nov 25 - Comet C/2007 VO53 (Spacewatch)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.499 AU)
- Nov 25 - Asteroid 3353 Jarvis Closest Approach To Earth (1.000 AU)
- Nov 25 - Asteroid 67 Asia Closest Approach To Earth (1.597 AU)
- Nov 25-27 - Workshop on Methane on Mars: Current Observations, Interpretation and Future Plans, Frascati, Italy
- Nov 26 - Asteroid 149244 Kriegh Closest Approach To Earth (1.418 AU)
- Nov 26 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Galileo
Io 25 Flyby
- Nov 26 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Discovery of SAU 005
& SAU 008 (Mars Meteorites)
- Nov 27 - Asteroid 2791 Paradise Closest Approach To Earth (1.517 AU)
- Nov 28 - Comet 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT
Perihelion (2.172 AU)
- Nov 28 - 45th Anniversary (1964), Mariner 4 Launch (Mars Flyby Mission)
- Nov 29 - MESSENGER,
Deep Space Maneuver 5 (DSM-5)
- Nov 29 - Asteroid 6469 Armstrong Closest Approach To Earth (1.417 AU)
- Nov 29 - Asteroid 5451 Plato Closest Approach To Earth (1.891 AU)
- Nov 30 - Comet 169P/NEAT
Perihelion (0.607 AU)
- Nov 30 - Asteroid 2005 XC1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU)
- Nov 30 - 55th Anniversary (1954), Sylacauga Meteorite Fall (Hit Woman)
- Nov 30-Dec 02 - Workshop: Missing Baryons, Accretion, and Feedback in Galaxies, Sydney, Australia
- Nov 30-Dec 04 - 5th Workshop Lidar Measurements in Latin America, Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 2009
- Dec ?? - Meteor 3M N2
Soyuz 2-1B Launch
- Dec ?? - Hylas Falcon 9 Launch
- Dec ?? - Kanopus-V/Belka 2 Rokot-Briz KM Launch
- Dec ?? - Insat 4-D GSLV-1 Launch
- Dec ?? - Tugsat 1 (Brite-Austria) Dnepr 1 Launch
- Dec 01 - Asteroid 2006 WQ127 Near-Earth Flyby (0.037 AU)
- Dec 02 - Asteroid 9951 Tyrannosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.688 AU)
- Dec 02 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Pioneer 11, Jupiter Flyby
- Dec 03 - Kuiper Belt Object 19521 Chaos
Closest Approach To Earth (40.745 AU)
- Dec 03 - Lecture: Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or Aster, Pasadena, California
- Dec 03 - 105th Anniversary (1904), Charles Perrine's Discovery of
Himalia (Jupiter Moon)
- Dec 04 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #225 (OTM-225)
- Dec 04 - Asteroid 3905 Doppler Closest Approach To Earth (0.978 AU)
- Dec 04 - Asteroid 31664 Randiiwessen Closest Approach To Earth (1.746 AU)
- Dec 04 - Lecture: Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or Aster, Pasadena, California
- Dec 04 - 50th Anniversary (1959), Little Joe 2 Launch (Monkey "Sam")
- Dec 05 - Comet 203P/Korlevic
Closest Approach To Earth (2.217 AU)
- Dec 05 - Asteroid 3728 IRAS Closest Approach To Earth (1.252 AU)
- Dec 06 - Comet 100P/Hartley
Perihelion (1.982 AU)
- Dec 07 - Asteroid 2002 XN14 Near-Earth Flyby (0.097 AU)
- Dec 07 - Asteroid 1198 Atlantis Closest Approach To Earth (1.192 AU)
- Dec 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 2004 XR190
Closest Approach To Earth (57.011 AU)
- Dec 08 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #226 (OTM-226)
- Dec 08 - Asteroid 2829 Bobhope Closest Approach To Earth (2.494 AU)
- Dec 09 - Cassini, Distant Helene Flyby
- Dec 09 - Comet P/2008 J3 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.138 AU)
- Dec 09 - Asteroid 19 Fortuna
At Opposition (9.3 Magnitude)
- Dec 09 - Asteroid 2309 Mr. Spock Closest Approach To Earth (1.802 AU)
- Dec 10 - Asteroid 9965 GNU Closest Approach To Earth (1.854 AU)
- Dec 10 - Asteroid 334 Chicago Closest Approach To Earth (2.987 AU)
- Dec 10 - 10th Anniversary (1999), X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) Launch
- Dec 10 - 25th Anniversary (1984), Claxton Meteorite Fall (Hit Mailbox)
- Dec 10 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Helios 1 Launch (Solar Orbiter)
- Dec 11 - Asteorid 3767 DiMaggio Closest Approach To Earth (1.805 AU)
- Dec 12 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Dec 13 - Geminids Meteor Shower Peak
- Dec 13 - Asteroid 9349 Lucas Closest Approach To Earth (1.421 AU)
- Dec 13 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Cassini,
2nd Titan Flyby
- Dec 13 - Sir William Hunter McCrea's 105th Birthday (1904)
- Dec 15 - X-37A F-1 Atlas 5 Launch
- Dec 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #227 (OTM-227)
- Dec 15 -[May 10] Comet 220P/McNaught
Perihelion (1.549 AU)
- Dec 15 - 25th Anniversary (1984), Vega 1 Launch (Soviet Venus/Comet Halley Mission)
- Dec 16 - 15th Anniversary (1994), Discovery of QUE 94201 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
- Dec 17 - Lecture: Thirty Meter Telescope, Waimea, Hawaii
- Dec 19 - Asteroid 5841 Stone Closest Approach To Earth (0.942 AU)
- Dec 20 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #228 (OTM-228)
- Dec 20 - Asteroid 2002 PR1 Near-Ceres Flyby (0.049 AU)
- Dec 20 - Asteroid 3568 ASCII Closest Approach To Earth (2.394 AU)
- Dec 20 - Ames Research Center's 70th Birthday (1939)
- Dec 20 - Mt. Wilson Observatory's 105th Birthday (1904)
- Dec 21 - Winter Solstice,
17:47 UT
- Dec 21 - Asteroid 7000 Curie Closest Approach To Earth (1.361 AU)
- Dec 21 - 25th Anniversary (1984), Vega 2 Launch (Soviet Venus/Comet Halley Mission)
- Dec 22 - Ursids Meteor Shower Peak
- Dec 22 - Asteroid 2003 YL118 Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)
- Dec 22 - Asteroid 8084 Dallas Closest Approach To Earth (1.705 AU)
- Dec 23 - Asteroid 64070 NEAT Closest Approach To Earth (1.153 AU)
- Dec 24 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #229 (OTM-229)
- Dec 24 - Asteroid 2007 MK13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.058 AU)
- Dec 24 - 30th Anniversary (1979), Inaugural Ariane 1 Launch
- Dec 25 - Asteroid 11 Parthenope
At Opposition (9.9 Magnitude)
- Dec 25 - Asteroid 2004 XG29 Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
- Dec 25 - Asteroid 6456 Golombek Closest Approach To Earth (1.968 AU)
- Dec 26 - Cassini, Distant Tethys Flyby
- Dec 26 - Asteroid 2008 YZ32
Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
- Dec 26 - Asteroid 51829 Williemccool Closest Approach To Earth (1.350 AU)
- Dec 26 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Salyut 4 Launch (USSR Space Station)
- Dec 27 - Comet 30P/Reinmuth
Closest Approach To Earth (1.180 AU)
- Dec 27 - Asteroid 2161 Grissom Closest Approach To Earth (1.663 AU)
- Dec 27 - 25th Anniversary (1984), Discovery of ALH84001 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
- Dec 28 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Dec 28 - Asteroid 1998 HE3 Near-Venus Flyby (0.017 AU)
- Dec 28 - Asteroid 324 Bamberga
At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude)
- Dec 28 - Maarten Schmidt's 80th Birthday (1929)
- Dec 29 - Asteroid 896 Sphinx Closest Approach To Earth (1.649 AU)
- Dec 30 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #230 (OTM-230)
- Dec 31 - Venus Express,
Mars Express,
End of Extended Mission
- Dec 31 - Partial Lunar Eclipse
- Dec 31 - Asteroid 2362 Mark Twain Closest Approach To Earth (1.258 AU)
- Dec 31 - Asteroid 7367 Giotto Closest Approach To Earth (2.209 AU)
- Dec 31 - Asteroid 4169 Celsius Closest Approach To Earth (2.216 AU)
- Dec 31 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Cassini, Iapetus Flyby
- Dec 31 - Robert Aiken's 145th Birthday (1864)
January 2010
- Jan ?? - GOES-P Delta 4M Launch
- Jan ?? - Luch 5A Soyuz 2-Fregat Launch
- Jan ?? - Afristar 3 (Worldstar 3) Ariane 5 Launch
- Jan ?? - X-37B
Atlas 5 Launch
- Jan ?? - NROL-25 Delta 4M Launch
- Jan ?? - Yamal 301/302 Proton K-DM-2M Launch
- Jan ?? - CBERS 3 CZ-4B Launch
- Jan ?? - TerreStar 2 Ariane 5 Launch
- Jan ?? - Express AM-4/Express MD-2 Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Jan 01 - Asteroid 25143 Itokawa
Closest Approach To Earth (0.571 AU)
- Jan 01 - Asteroid 6984 Lewiscarroll Closest Approach To Earth (2.306 AU)
- Jan 02 - Asteroid 9342 Carygrant Closest Approach To Earth (1.350 AU)
- Jan 02 - Isaac Asimov's 90th Birthday (1920)
- Jan 02 - Leslie Peltier's 110th Birthday (1900)
- Jan 03 - Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak
- Jan 03 - Asteroid 6524 Baalke Closest Approach To Earth (1.252 AU)
- Jan 03 - 10th Annivesary (2000), Galileo,
Europa 26 Flyby
- Jan 04 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #231 (OTM-231)
- Jan 04 - Earth
At Perihelion (0.983 AU From Sun)
- Jan 05 - Comet 82P/Gehrels 3
Closest Approach To Earth (2.650 AU)
- Jan 05 - Asteroid 1069 Planckia Closest Approach To Earth (2.047 AU)
- Jan 05 - Asteroid 8000 Isaac Newton Closest Approach To Earth (2.333 AU)
- Jan 05 - Asteroid 2404 Antarctica Closest Approach To Earth (2.520 AU)
- Jan 05 - 105th Anniversary (1905), Charles Perrine's Discovery of Jupiter Moon
Elara
- Jan 06 - Comet P/2005 S2 (Skiff)
Closest Approach To Earth (6.374 AU)
- Jan 06 - Asteroid 9963 Sandage Closest Approach To Earth (1.473 AU)
- Jan 06 - Asteroid 3784 Chopin Closest Approach To Earth (2.673 AU)
- Jan 06 - 25th Anniversary (1985), La Criolla Meteorite Fall (Hit House)
- Jan 07 - 25th Anniversary (1985), Sakigake Launch (Japan Comet Halley Mission)
- Jan 07 - 400th Anniversary (1610), Galileo Galilei's Discovery of Jupiter's Moons
- Jan 08 - Asteroid 2005 YO3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
- Jan 08 - Asteroid 12382 Niagara Falls Closest Approach To Earth (1.922 AU)
- Jan 09 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #232 (OTM-232)
- Jan 09 - 20th Anniversary (1990), STS-32 Columbia Launch (LDEF Satellite)
- Jan 10 - Asteroid 10221 Kubrick Closest Approach To Earth (1.373 AU)
- Jan 11 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Pandora & Methone
- Jan 12 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Jan 12 - Comet 169P/NEAT
Near-Earth Flyby (0.194 AU)
- Jan 12 - Comet 82P/Gehrels 3
Perihelion (3.633 AU)
- Jan 12 - 5th Anniversary (2005), Deep Impact Delta 2 Launch,
- Jan 12 - Royal Astronomical Society's 190th Birthday (1820)
- Jan 13 - Asteroid 9885 Linux Closest Approach To Earth (1.237 AU)
- Jan 13 - Asteroid 3350 Scobee Closest Approach To Earth (1.715 AU)
- Jan 13 - Asteroid 2421 Nininger Closest Approach To Earth (2.334 AU)
- Jan 13 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Discovery of EETA 79001 (Mars Meteorite)
- Jan 14 - Asteroid 1134 Kepler Closest Approach To Earth (2.444 AU)
- Jan 14 - 5th Anniversary (2005), Huygens Probe, Titan Landing
- Jan 15 - Annular Solar Eclipse, Visible in Africa, India & China
- Jan 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #233 (OTM-233)
- Jan 15 - Asteroid 9000 Hal Closest Approach To Earth (1.707 AU)
- Jan 16 - Asteroid 29075 (1950 DA)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.901 AU)
- Jan 17 - Comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels
Closest Approach To Earth (1.822 AU)
- Jan 17 - Asteroid 2009 DA43
Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
- Jan 17 - Asteroid 5554 Keesey Closest Approach To Earth (1.235 AU)
- Jan 17 - Asteroid 35352 Texas Closest Approach To Earth (1.917 AU)
- Jan 17 - Asteroid 13681 Monty Python Closest Approach To Earth (2.194 AU)
- Jan 18 - Asteroid 2008 XM
Near-Earth Flyby (0.079 AU)
- Jan 19 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Voyager 1's Discovery of Saturn Moon
Janus
- Jan 19 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Gemini 2 launch (Unmanned Suborbital Flight)
- Jan 19 - 170th Anniversary (1840), Discovery of Antarctica
- Jan 20 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #234 (OTM-234)
- Jan 20 - Asteroid 11714 Mikebrown Closest Approach To Earth (2.347 AU)
- Jan 20 - Buzz Aldrin's 80th Birthday (1930)
- Jan 21 - 50th Anniversary (1960), Little Joe Launch (Miss Sam Monkey)
- Jan 22 - Asteroid 2003 BH Near-Earth Flyby (0.091 AU)
- Jan 22 - Asteroid 7672 Hawking Closest Approach To Earth (1.226 AU)
- Jan 22 - Asteroid 12574 LONEOS Closest Approach To Earth (1.493 AU)
- Jan 22 - Asteroid 7231 Porco Closest Approach To Earth (2.390 AU)
- Jan 23 - Glory Taurus Launch
- Jan 24 - 10th Anniversary (2000), Discovery of Dhofar 019 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
- Jan 24 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Hiten Launch (Japan Moon Orbiter)
- Jan 25 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #235 (OTM-235)
- Jan 25 - Asteroid 9949 Brontosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.357 AU)
- Jan 25-29 -[May 09] SEASAR 2010 Workshop: Advances in SAR Oceanography from ENVISAT, ERS and ESA Third Party Missions, Frascati, Italy
- Jan 26 - Asteroid 2198 Ceplecha Closest Approach To Earth (1.490 AU)
- Jan 26 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Voyager 1's Discovery of Saturn Moon Epimetheus
- Jan 26 - Asteroid 2198 Ceplecha Closest Approach To Earth (1.490 AU)
- Jan 26 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Voyager 1's Discovery of Saturn Moon
Epimetheus
- Jan 27 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Dione, Telesto, Methone, Pan & Prometheus
- Jan 27 - Mercury At Its Greatest Western
Elongation (25 Degrees)
- Jan 27 - Asteroid 3768 Monroe Closest Approach To Earth (2.357 AU)
- Jan 28 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Jan 28 - Mars Closest Approach To Earth (0.664 AU)
- Jan 28 - Asteroid 14702 Benclark Closest Approach To Earth (2.323 AU)
- Jan 28 - Asteroid 37452 Spirit Closest Approach To Earth (2.830 AU)
- Jan 29 - Mars
At Opposition
- Jan 29 -[May 10] Comet P/1998 VS24 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.286 AU)
- Jan 29 - Asteroid 6775 Giorgini Closest Approach To Earth (2.112 AU)
- Jan 30 - Asteroid 2008 CN1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
- Jan 31 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #236 (OTM-236)
February 2010
- Feb ?? -[May 10] STS-130 Launch, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Node 3, Cupola, International Space Station
- Feb ?? - SBIRS-Geo 1
(SBIRS-High 2)
Atlas 5 Launch
- Feb ?? - NROL-29 Atlas 5 Launch
- Feb ?? - Radio-Astron (Spektr R)
Zenit 2-Fregat-SB Launch
- Feb ?? - SSR-1 VSL-1 Launch (Brazil)
- Feb ?? - Giove A2 Soyuz FG-Fregat Launch
- Feb ?? - Cosmo-Skymed 4 Delta 2 Launch
- Feb ?? - GPS 2F-2 Atlas 5 Launch
- Feb ?? - Badr 5 (Arabsat 5B) Ariane 5 Launch
- Feb 01 - Asteroid 9937 Triceratops Closest Approach To Earth (1.588 AU)
- Feb 03 - Asteroid 2008 CD119 Near-Earth Flyby (0.072 AU)
- Feb 03 - Asteroid 9770 Discovery Closest Approach To Earth (1.167 AU)
- Feb 03 - Asteroid 1862 Apollo
Closest Approach To Earth (1.306 AU)
- Feb 03 - Asteroid 12820 Robinwilliams Closest Approach To Earth (2.009 AU)
- Feb 04 - Asteroid 2008 CL20 Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
- Feb 04 - Asteroid 2001 UF18 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.026 AU)
- Feb 06 - Asteroid 2001 SF286 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.036 AU)
- Feb 07 - Asteroid 2099 Opik Closest Approach To Earth (1.753 AU)
- Feb 07 - Asteroid 4701 Milani Closest Approach To Earth (1.795 AU)
- Feb 08 - Comet 203P/Korlevic
Perihelion (3.182 AU)
- Feb 08 - Asteroid 216 Kleopatra Closest Approach To Earth (1.917 AU)
- Feb 08 - 10th Anniversary (2000), Discovery of GRV 99027 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
- Feb 09 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Galileo, Venus Flyby
- Feb 09-10 - NASA Project Management Challenge 2010, Galveston, Texas
- Feb 10 - Asteroid 2008 CQ116 Near-Earth Flyby (0.050 AU)
- Feb 10 - Asteroid 6000 United Nations Closest Approach To Earth (2.018 AU)
- Feb 11 - STS-131 Launch, Space Shuttle Atlantis, Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, International Space Station
- Feb 11 - Asteroid 8952 ODAS Closest Approach To Earth (1.658 AU)
- Feb 11 - Asteroid 48300 Kronk Closest Approach To Earth (2.050 AU)
- Feb 11 - Kuiper Belt Object 55565 (2002 AW197) Closest Approach To Earth (45.458 AU)
- Feb 11 - 40th Anniversary (1970), Ohsumi Launch (Japan's 1st Satellite)
- Feb 12 - Comet C/2005 S2 (Skiff)
Perihelion (3.300 AU)
- Feb 12 - Asteroid 1991 Darwin Closest Approach To Earth (1.721 AU)
- Feb 13 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Calypso & Epimetheus
- Feb 13 - Cassini, Mimas Flyby
- Feb 13 - Comet 81P/Wild 2
Perihelion (1.598 AU)
- Feb 13 - Asteroid 2001 TE2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.067 AU)
- Feb 13 - Asteroid 17196 Mastrodemos Closest Approach To Earth (1.653 AU)
- Feb 14 - Chinese New Year
- Feb 14 - Asteroid 1996 BG1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.042 AU)
- Feb 14 - 10th Anniversary (2000), NEAR, Asteroid Eros Orbit Insertion
- Feb 14 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Voyager 1,
Family Portrait Images
- Feb 14 - 25th Anniversary (1985), Solar Maximum Mission Launch
- Feb 15-18 - Conference: Probing Strong Gravity near Black Holes, Prague, Czech Republic
- Feb 17 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Ranger 8 Launch (Moon Impact Mission)
- Feb 18 - Asteroid 2005 YQ96 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.034 AU)
- Feb 18 - Asteroid 2991 Bilbo Closest Approach To Earth (1.760 AU)
- Feb 18 - 80th Anniversary (1930), Clyde Tombaugh's Discovery of
Pluto
- Feb 19 - Comet 149P/Mueller 4
Perihelion (2.650 AU)
- Feb 19 - Asteroid 9941 Iguanodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.066 AU)
- Feb 19 - Kuiper Belt Object 90482 Orcus
Closest Approach To Earth (46.951 AU)
- Feb 20 - Asteroid 2002 XY38 Near-Earth Flyby (0.042 AU)
- Feb 20 - Asteroid 17024 Costello Closest Approach To Earth (1.545 AU)
- Feb 21 - Tom Gehrels' 85th Birthday (1925)
- Feb 22 - Comet 126P/IRAS
Perihelion> (1.713 AU)
- Feb 22 - Asteroid 4 Vesta
Closest Approach To Earth (1.411 AU)
- Feb 22 - 10th Anniversary (2000), Galileo,
Io 27 Flyby
- Feb 23 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #237 (OTM-237)
- Feb 23 - Comet 94P/Russell
Closest Approach To Earth (1.275 AU)
- Feb 25 - Asteroid 33342 (1998 WT24) Near-Mercury Flyby (0.022 AU)
- Feb 25 - Asteroid 88292 Bora-Bora Closest Approach To Earth (1.790 AU)
- Feb 25 - Asteroid 9661 Hohmann Closest Approach To Earth (3.896 AU)
- Feb 26 - Asteroid 2009 FY4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
- Feb 26 - Asteroid 3808 Tempel Closest Approach To Earth (0.974 AU)
- Feb 26 - Asteroid 99942 Apophis
Closest Approach To Earth (1.631 AU)
- Feb 27 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #238 (OTM-238)
- Feb 28 -[May 12] Comet P/1999 XN120 (Catalina)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.837 AU)
March 2010
- Mar ?? - Sich 2 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Mar ?? - XM-5 Zenit 3SL Launch
- Mar 01 - Asteroid 2007 EF Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
- Mar 01 - Asteroid 39382 Opportunity Closest Approach To Earth (2.932 AU)
- Mar 01 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Laques & Lechaceux's Discovery of Saturn Moon Helene
- Mar 01-04 - 11th High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) Meeting, Waikoloa, Hawaii
- Mar 01-05 - 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 2010), The Woodlands, Texas
- Mar 02 - Cassini, Rhea Flyby
- Mar 02 - Asteroid 2001 PT9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)
- Mar 02 - Asteroid 18106 Blume Closest Approach To Earth (2.705 AU)
- Mar 03 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Calypso
- Mar 03 - Cassini, Helene Flyby
- Mar 03 - Asteroid 2742 Gibson Closest Approach To Earth (1.979 AU)
- Mar 03 - Asteroid 11881 Mirstation Closest Approach To Earth (2.115 AU)
- Mar 04 - 5th Anniversary (2005), Rosetta, 1st Earth Gravity Assist
- Mar 05 -[May 09] Comet 219P/LINEAR
Perihelion (2.364 AU)
- Mar 05 - Asteroid 2008 EY5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
- Mar 05 - Asteroid 2006 AM4 Near-Mercury (0.043 AU)
- Mar 05 - Asteroid 951 Gaspra
Closest Approach To Earth (1.507 AU)
- Mar 05 - Asteroid 3130 Hillary Closest Approach To Earth (1.959 AU)
- Mar 06 - Asteroid 2006 LD1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.043 AU)
- Mar 06 - Michelangelo's 535th Birthday (1475)
- Mar 06-13 -[May 12] 2010 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana
- Mar 07 - Asteroid 2007 FB Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)
- Mar 07 - Asteroid 30785 Greeley Closest Approach To Earth (1.882 AU)
- Mar 08 - Asteroid 4149 Harrison Closest Approach To Earth (1.508 AU)
- Mar 09 - Asteroid 4370 Dickens Closest Approach To Earth (1.597 AU)
- Mar 10 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #239 (OTM-239)
- Mar 10 - Asteroid 447 Valentine Closest Approach To Earth (2.083 AU)
- Mar 11 - Asteroid 719 Albert
Closest Approach To Earth (2.154 AU)
- Mar 11 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Pioneer 5 Launch (Solar Orbiter)
- Mar 12 - Simon Newcomb's 175th Birthday (1835)
- Mar 13 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Pascu/Seidelmann/Baum/Currie's Discovery of Saturn Moon Calypso
- Mar 13 - Percival Lowell's 155th Birthday (1855)
- Mar 14 - Daylight Saving - Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour (United States)
- Mar 14 -[May 14] Comet 202P/Scotti
Closest Approach To Earth (2.405 AU)
- Mar 14 - Giovanni Schiaparelli's 175th Birthday (1835)
- Mar 15 - Asteroid 2002 AJ129 Near-Mars Flyby (0.041 AU)
- Mar 15 - Asteroid 16857 Goodall Closest Approach To Earth (1.312 AU)
- Mar 15 - Asteroid 78577 JPL Closest Approach To Earth (1.971 AU)
- Mar 15-17 - Conference: High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy: Past, Present, and Future, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Mar 16 - Asteroid 2008 JC Near-Venus Flyby (0.022 AU)
- Mar 16 - Asteroid 10799 Yucatan Closest Approach To Earth (1.941 AU)
- Mar 16 - Asteroid 7291 Hyakutake Closest Approach To Earth (2.726 AU)
- Mar 16 - Dwarf Planet Makemake
Closest Approach To Earth (51.283 AU)
- Mar 16 - 35th Anniversary (1975), Mariner 10, 3rd Mercury Flyby
- Mar 16 - Caroline Herschel's 260th Birthday (1750)
- Mar 17 - Asteroid 8103 Fermi Closest Approach To Earth (1.931 AU)
- Mar 17 - Asteroid 51824 Mikeanderson Closest Approach To Earth (2.305 AU)
- Mar 17 - Jim Irwin's 80th Birthday (1930)
- Mar 18 - Asteroid 1999 MN Near-Mercury Flyby (0.015 AU)
- Mar 18 - Asteroid 6758 Jesseowens Closest Approach To Earth (1.454 AU)
- Mar 18 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Soviet Rocket Launch Explosion (48 Dead)
- Mar 18 - 45th Anniversary (1965), 1st Spacewalk, Leonov On Voskhod 2
- Mar 19 - Asteroid 3356 Resnik Closest Approach To Earth (1.183 AU)
- Mar 19 - Asteroid 6223 Dahl Closest Approach To Earth (2.059 AU)
- Mar 19 - Asteroid 886 Washingtonia Closest Approach To Earth (3.064 AU)
- Mar 19 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Hiten, Moon Flyby (Japan)
- Mar 20 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Telesto, Prometheus & Methone
- Mar 20 - Vernal Equinox,
17:32 UT
- Mar 20 - Asteroid 9880 Stegosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.341 AU)
- Mar 20 - Asteroid 4433 Goldstone Closest Approach To Earth (1.742 AU)
- Mar 20 - Asteroid 19367 Pink Floyd Closest Approach To Earth (1.753 AU)
- Mar 21 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Pallene & Polydeuces
- Mar 21 - Saturn
At Opposition
- Mar 21 - Asteroid 2001 FE7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)
- Mar 21 - Asteroid 3656 Hemingway Closest Approach To Earth (1.121 AU)
- Mar 21 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Ranger 9 Launch (Moon Impact Mission)
- Mar 23 - Asteroid 2000 EW70 Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
- Mar 23 - Asteroid 128523 Johnmuir Closest Approach To Earth (1.892 AU)
- Mar 23 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Gemini 3 Launch (Virgil Grissom, John Young)
- Mar 24 - Asteroid 11246 Orvillewright Closest Approach To Earth (1.906 AU)
- Mar 24 - Asteroid 1691 Oort Closest Approach To Earth (2.531 AU)
- Mar 25 - Asteroid 3355 Onizuka Closest Approach To Earth (1.218 AU)
- Mar 25 - Asteroid 1877 Marsden Closest Approach To Earth (3.233 AU)
- Mar 25 - 10th Anniversary (2000), IMAGE Launch
- Mar 25 - 355th Anniversary (1655), Christiaan Huygens'
Discovery of Saturn Moon Titan
- Mar 26 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #240 (OTM-240)
- Mar 26 - Comet P/2001 R6 (LINEAR-Skiff)
Perihelion (2.179 AU)
- Mar 26 - Asteroid 2004 FU162 Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
- Mar 26 - Asteroid 2007 MT20 Near-Venus Flyby (0.043 AU)
- Mar 26 - Asteroid 51826 Kalpanachawla Closest Approach To Earth (2.190 AU)
- Mar 26 - Asteroid 51823 Rickhusband Closest Approach To Earth (2.634 AU)
- Mar 27 - Asteroid 3267 Glo Closest Approach To Earth (1.840 AU)
- Mar 28 - Asteroid 17744 Jodiefoster Closest Approach To Earth (2.066 AU)
- Mar 29 - Comet 94P/Russell
Perihelion (2.240 AU)
- Mar 29 - Asteroid 1225 Ariane Closest Approach To Earth (1.183 AU)
- Mar 29 - Asteroid 5036 Tuttle Closest Approach To Earth (1.612 AU)
- Mar 29-Apr 02 - Conference: Exoplanets Rising - Astronomy and Planetary Science at the Crossroads, Santa Barbara, California
- Mar 30 - Asteroid 17059 Elvis Closest Approach To Earth (1.615 AU)
- Mar 30 - Asteroid 3000 Leonardo Closest Approach To Earth (1.775 AU)
- Mar 30 - Asteroid 4957 Brucemurray Closest Approach To Earth (2.084 AU)
- Mar 31 -[May 13] Comet P/2008 Y3 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.266 AU)
April 2010
- Apr ?? - Cosmos Glonass K1+K2 Soyuz 2 Fregat Launch
- Apr ?? - Cosmos-Prognoz N11 Proton K-DM2 Launch
- Apr ?? - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), End of Primary Mission
- Apr 01 - 50th Anniversary (1960), Tiros 1 Launch (1st Weather Satellite)
- Apr 02 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #241 (OTM-241)
- Apr 02 - Comet 149P/Mueller 4
Closest Approach To Earth (1.802 AU)
- Apr 02 - Asteroid 2001 XO88 Near-Vesta Flyby (0.037 AU)
- Apr 02 - Asteroid 3949 Mach Closest Approach To Earth (1.138 AU)
- Apr 02 - Asteroid 18932 Robinhood Closest Approach To Earth (1.599 AU)
- Apr 02 - Asteroid 3351 Smith Closest Approach To Earth (2.857 AU)
- Apr 02 - Asteroid 1006 Lagrangea Closest Approach To Earth (3.266 AU)
- Apr 04 - Easter Sunday
- Apr 04 - American Rocket Society's 80th Birthday (1930)
- Apr 05 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Apr 05 - Asteroid 2009 HE60
Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)
- Apr 05 - Asteroid 1604 Tombaugh Closest Approach To Earth (2.292 AU)
- Apr 05 - 20th Anniversary (1990), 1st Pegasus Rocket Launch
- Apr 06 -[May 11] Comet P/1999 XB69 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.008 AU)
- Apr 06 - Asteroid 2004 ER21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
- Apr 06 - Asteroid 132524 APL Closest Approach To Earth (1.871 AU)
- Apr 06 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Intelsat 1 Launch (1st Commercial Communications Satellite)
- Apr 07 - Cassini, Dione Flyby
- Apr 07 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Mimas, Tethys, Calypso, Epimetheus & Janus
- Apr 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 136108 Haumea
Closest Approach To Earth (50.125 AU)
- Apr 07-10 - Conference: From Stars to Galaxies - Connecting Our Understanding of Star and Galaxy Formation, Gainesville, Florida
- Apr 08 - STS-132 Launch, Space Shuttle Atlantis, International Space Station
- Apr 08 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern
Elongation (19 Degrees)
- Apr 08 - Asteroid 7818 Muirhead Closest Approach To Earth (2.023 AU)
- Apr 08 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Voyager 1's Discovery of
Saturn Moon Telesto
- Apr 09 -[May 11] Comet 211P/Hill
Closest Approach To Earth (2.191 AU)
- Apr 09 - Asteroid 2007 TD Near-Venus Flyby (0.038 AU)
- Apr 09 - Asteroid 1034 Mozartia Closest Approach To Earth (1.593 AU)
- Apr 10 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #242 (OTM-242)
- Apr 10 - Asteroid 2004 FG11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.065 AU)
- Apr 10 - Asteroid 4238 Audrey Closest Approach To Earth (1.228 AU)
- Apr 10 - Asteroid 5682 Beresford Closest Approach To Earth (1.879 AU)
- Apr 11 - Asteroid 2003 TT9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
- Apr 11 - Asteroid 3162 Nostalgia Closest Approach To Earth (2.404 AU)
- Apr 11 - Asteroid 5223 McSween Closest Approach To Earth (2.722 AU)
- Apr 11 - Asteroid 4179 Toutatis
Closest Approach To Earth (2.873 AU)
- Apr 11 - 40th Anniversary (1970), Apollo 13 Launch
- Apr 12 - Asteroid 17062 Bardot Closest Approach To Earth (2.119 AU)
- Apr 12 - Yuri's Night - World Space Party
- Apr 13 - Asteroid 2008 FH Near-Earth Flyby (0.040 AU)
- Apr 13 - Asteroid 5203 Pavarotti Closest Approach To Earth (1.307 AU)
- Apr 13 - Asteroid 4150 Starr Closest Approach To Earth (1.388 AU)
- Apr 13 - Asteroid 2985 Shakespeare Closest Approach To Earth (1.876 AU)
- Apr 13 - 50th Anniversary (1960), Transit 1B Launch (1st Experimental Navigation Satellite)
- Apr 14 - Asteroid 5035 Swift Closest Approach To Earth (1.644 AU)
- Apr 14 - Asteroid 6227 Alanrubin Closest Approach To Earth (2.044 AU)
- Apr 16 - Asteroid 2008 CB6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.031 AU)
- Apr 16 - Asteroid 2001 QE71 Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)
- Apr 16 - Asteroid 7862 Keikonakamura Closest Approach To Earth (2.051 AU)
- Apr 16 - Petrus Apianus' 515th Birthday (1495)
- Apr 17 - Comet C/2009 F2 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.982 AU)
- Apr 17 - Asteroid 10051 Albee Closest Approach To Earth (2.115 AU)
- Apr 18 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #243 (OTM-243)
- Apr 19 - Comet 30P/Reinmuth
Perihelion (1.884 AU)
- Apr 19 - Asteroid 2005 YU55 Near-Earth Flyby (0.014 AU)
- Apr 19 - Asteroid 5891 Gehrig Closest Approach To Earth (1.724 AU)
- Apr 19-25 - Astronomy Week
- Apr 20 - Asteroid 2008 UC202 Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
- Apr 20 - Asteroid 6336 Dodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.708 AU)
- Apr 20 - Asteroid 2000 Herschel Closest Approach To Earth (2.039 AU)
- Apr 20 - Asteroid 11247 Wilburwright Closest Approach To Earth (2.570 AU)
- Apr 21 - Asteroid 1288 Santa Closest Approach To Earth (2.036 AU)
- Apr 21 - Asteroid 43844 Rowling Closest Approach To Earth (2.173 AU)
- Apr 22 - Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak
- Apr 22 - Asteroid 4628 Laplace Closest Approach To Earth (1.442 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 8575 Hawaii Closest Approach To Earth (2.136 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 51827 Laurelclark Closest Approach To Earth (2.143 AU)
- Apr 24 - Astronomy Day
- Apr 24 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #244 (OTM-244)
- Apr 24 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Hubble Space Telescope Launch
(STS-31)
- Apr 24 - 40th Anniversary (1970), Mao 1 Launch (1st Chinese Satellite)
- Apr 26 - Comet C/2007 VO53 (Spacewatch)
Perihelion (4.843 AU)
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 6676 Monet Closest Approach To Earth (1.947 AU)
- Apr 27 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Prometheus, Telesto, Pandora & Pallene
- Apr 28 - Cassini, Enceladus Flyby
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 656 Beagle Closest Approach To Earth (1.912 AU)
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 51825 Davidbrown Closest Approach To Earth (2.149 AU)
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 5555 Wimberly Closest Approach To Earth (2.306 AU)
- Apr 28 - Jan Oort's 110th Birthday (1900)
- Apr 29 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #245 (OTM-245)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 5450 Sokrates Closest Approach To Earth (1.931 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 4957 Brucemurray Closest Approach To Earth (2.185 AU)
- Apr 30 - Asteroid 9769 Nautilus Closest Approach To Earth (1.050 AU)
May 2010
- May 02 - Asteroid 2007 DB61 Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
- May 03 - Asteroid 24101 Cassini Closest Approach To Earth (2.343 AU)
- May 04 - Comet 104P/Kowal 2
Perihelion (1.180 AU)
- May 04 - Asteroid (141495) 2002 EZ11 Near-Mars Flyby (0.018 AU)
- May 05 - Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- May 06 - Asteroid 9016 Henrymoore Closest Approach To Earth (2.898 AU)
- May 07 - Space Day
- May 07 - Asteroid 2009 BD
Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)
- May 07 - Asteroid 2688 Halley Closest Approach To Earth (1.867 AU)
- May 07 - Asteroid 4255 Spacewatch Closest Approach To Earth (2.438 AU)
- May 08 - Asteroid 1224 Fantasia Closest Approach To Earth (1.728 AU)
- May 11 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #246 (OTM-246)
- May 11 - Asteroid 2005 JR5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)
- May 11 - Asteroid 6471 Collins Closest Approach To Earth (1.430 AU)
- May 12 - Asteroid 2007 TZ68 Near-Mars Flyby (0.012 AU)
- May 12 - Asteroid 9133 d'Arrest Closest Approach To Earth (1.879 AU)
- May 14 - Griffith Observatory's 75th Birthday (1935)
- May 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #247 (OTM-247)
- May 15 -[May 07] Asteroid 10204 Turing Closest Approach To Earth (2.010 AU)
- May 18 -[May 07] Cassini, Enceladus & Methone Flyby
- May 19 -[May 14] Comet 24P/Schaumasse
Closest Approach To Earth (2.277 AU)
- May 19 -[May 08] Asteroid 2003 QC10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
- May 19-21 -[May 11] 4th International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS) Conference, Huntsville, Alabama
- May 20 -[May 08] Cassini, Titan Flyby
- May 20 -[May 09] Asteroid 2004 FG11 Near-Mercury (0.039 AU)
- May 20 -[May 09] Asteroid 11055 Honduras Closest Approach To Earth (0.985 AU)
- May 20 -[May 10] 10th Anniversary (2000), Galileo, Ganymede 28 Flyby
- May 21 -[May 10] Asteroid 3259 Brownlee Closest Approach To Earth (1.833 AU)
- May 21 -[May 11] Asteroid 6433 Enya Closest Approach To Earth (1.879 AU)
- May 22 -[May 11] Asteroid 232 Russia Closest Approach To Earth (1.175 AU)
- May 22 -[May 12] 15th Anniversary (1995), Saturn Ring Plane Crossing (1 of 3)
- May 23 -[May 12] Aquarius Delta 2 Launch
- May 23 -[May 13] Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #248 (OTM-248)
- May 23 -[May 13] Asteroid 2008 GA4 Near-Venus Flyby (0.031 AU)
- May 23 -[May 14] Asteroid 9969 Braille
Closest Approach To Earth (0.427 AU)
- May 23 -[May 14] Asteroid 8088 Australia Closest Approach To Earth (1.526 AU)
Please direct questions and comments about this calendar to
Ron Baalke
Jet Propulsion Lab
baalke@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov